State v. Alexander Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Hahn v. City of Ortonville (1953), Commonwealth v. Connolly (1985)
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 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 State v. Upson · Sapp v. State · Smith v. People · Bakalars v. Continental Casualty Co. · Wadsworth v. Dunnam
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The expression ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor’ is in common, everyday use by the people. It is older than this law. [[Image here]] When a person is so affected by intoxicating liquor, as not to possess that clearness of intellect and control of himself that he otherwise would have, he is under the influence of intoxicating liquor. That would appear to be the common understanding of the expression, and well known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Duemke““In that light the use of the expression in the statute renders the law neither obscure nor uncertain. ¥e hold the statute to be constitutional and valid.””
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.