State v. Dudley’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 19 Cal. 2d 488 - In Re Bell (1942), Henderson v. Nolting First Mortgage Corp. (1937)
52 state decisions — followed in 14 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Reese · State v. Gardner · City of Shreveport v. Smith
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““that the term ‘under the influence of liquor’ has a well-recognized meaning with every one, which is exactly synonymous with the term ‘in an intoxicated condition.’ ” (Italics supplied by the Louisiana court).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.