State v. Eckert’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably State v. Schuler (1976), State v. Blackman (1998)
2 district · 24 state decisions
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 13 Utah 2d 195 - State v. Brennan · State v. Ohler · State v. McLaughlin · In re Resler · Warren v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a prosecution for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, the operation of the motor vehicle is an element of the offense and may be established by circumstantial evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schuler · State v. Fuchs““ * * * The evidence is sufficient, although circumstantial, to sustain the finding that defendant operated his motor vehicle on a public highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fuchs · Lewallen v. State“A man cannot he tried for manslaughter when he has previously been tried for murder of the same person, nor vice versa, for the gist of the charge is the same in both cases, namely, the unlawful killing.”
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.