18 Va. App. 61 - Shoemaker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Walton v. City of Roanoke · 15 Va. App. 148 - Breeden v. Commonwealth · 12 Va. App. 958 - Wendel v. Commonwealth · 17 Va. App. 376 - Sullivan v. Commonwealth · 17 Va. App. 372 - Snead v. Commonwealth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The provisions of [Code § 18.2-268 et seq. ] serve a salutary purpose. A chemical analysis of one's blood provides a scientifically accurate method of determining whether a person is intoxicated, removes the question from the field of speculation and supplies the best evidence for that determination. It protects one who has the odor of alcohol on his breath but has not been drinking to excess, and one whose conduct may create the appearance of intoxication when he is suffering from some physical condition over which he has no control."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nce the Commonwealth has elected to have a driver take a blood or breath test pursuant to Code § 18.2-268, the driver has a right to receive the benefits of the test.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the independent test results could have been exculpatory.”
2 later decisions 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.