22 Conn. App. 88 - State v. Ducatt’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably State v. Wiggs (2000), State v. Teti (1998)
40 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 Mahoney v. Lensink · State v. Rutan · Szudora v. Town of Fairfield · State v. Swift · State v. Gaetano
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.
“While the word “drive”, as used in [“driving while intoxicated” statutes], usually denotes movement of the vehicle in some direction (see Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary), the word “operate” has a broader meaning so as to include not only the motion of the vehicle but also acts which engage the machinery of the vehicle that, alone or in sequence, will set in motion the motive power of the vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wiles“"No person shall operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug or both. A person commits the [aforementioned] offense if he operates a motor vehicle on a public highway or in any parking area for ten or more cars . . . (2) while the ratio of alcohol in the blood of such person is ten-hundredths of one percent or more of alcohol, by weight."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nothing else in the statute clarifies the meaning of operate.”
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.