193 W. Va. 311 - Boley v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2012
8 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Schlup v. Delo · Bell v. Burson · 179 W. Va. 194 - State v. Barker · 173 W. Va. 268 - Albrecht 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence and testimony of the officer indicated that the vehicle, from his investigation of the scene, had crossed the center line; that he observed an odor of alcohol on the appellant at the time he arrived at the scene; that he did give the gaze nystagmus test, and believed as a result of that, testified as a result of that, that the appellant was under the influence of alcohol.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There are no provisions in either W.Va. Code, 17C-5-1 (1981), et seq., or W.Va. Code, 17C-5A-1 (1981), et seq., that require the administration of a chemical sobriety test in order to prove that a motorist was driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs for purposes of making an administrative revocation of his driver’s license.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.