State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 36 Wash. App. 439 - State v. Smelter (1984), State v. Hudson (2005)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 230 Pa. Super. 563 - Commonwealth v. Kloch · State v. Webb · State v. Ruona · Hughes v. State · State v. Ghylin
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“18-8004. Persons under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other intoxicating substances. (1)(a) It is unlawful for any person who is under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other intoxicating substances, or who has an alcohol concentration of 0.10, as defined in subsection (4) of this section, or more, as shown by analysis of his blood, urine, or breath, to drive or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle within this state, whether upon a highway, street or bridge, or upon public or private property open to the public... . (6) "Actual physical control" as used in this section, shall be defined as being in the driver's position of the motor vehicle with the motor running or with the motor vehicle moving. [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Woolf · State v. Sees“Just as a motorist remains in a position to regulate a vehicle while asleep behind its steering wheel, so does he remain in a position to regulate a vehicle while asleep behind the steering wheel of a vehicle stuck in a borrow pit. He has not relinquished regulation of or control over the vehicle. It does not matter that the vehicle is incapable of moving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Highway’ means the entire width between the boundary lines of every publicly maintained way when any part there of is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel, except that for the purpose of chapter 8 [governing traffic regulation] the term also includes ways which have been or shall be dedicated to public use.” (Emphasis added.)”
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.