Buckley v. Muzio’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
209 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably City of New Haven v. Freedom of Information Commission (1988), Dolgner v. Alander (1996)
209 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 Schmerber v. State of California · South Dakota v. Neville · Lawrence v. Kozlowski · Burnham v. Administrator · Persico v. Maher
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court's ultimate duty is only to decide whether, in light of the evidence, the [commissioner] has acted unreasonably, arbitrarily, illegally, or in abuse of [his] discretion.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Did the police officer have probable cause to arrest the person . . . (2) was such person placed under arrest; (3) did such person refuse to submit to such test or analysis . . .; and (4) was such person operating the motor vehicle.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny person who operates a motor vehicle in this state shall be deemed to have given his consent to a chemical analysis of his blood, breath or urine. . . .”
9 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.