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← 2000 ME 115 - State v. Webster

State v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

1 district · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Wood · State v. Eastman · State v. Swett · State v. Worster

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he probable cause standard for requiring a person to take a blood alcohol test has a very low threshold. A person is guilty of operating under the influence if his or her senses are impaired however slightly or to any extent by the alcohol that person has had to drink.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “an officer only needs evidence sufficient to support the reasonable belief 'that the person's senses are affected to the slightest degree, or to any extent, by the alcohol that person has had to drink.'”
    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.