State v. Berger’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2026
18 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 State v. Witte · City of Fargo v. McLaughlin · State v. Ringquist · State v. Fields · State v. Salhus
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to arrest a driver for driving under the influence, the law enforcement officer first must observe some signs of impairment, physical or mental. Further, the law enforcement officer must have reason to believe the driver’s impairment is caused by alcohol. Both elements — impairment and indication of alcohol consumption — are necessary to establish probable cause to arrest for driving under the influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boehm
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.