Burson v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Sherrill v. Department of Transportation (1990), 83 Wis. 2d 891 - In Matter of Suspension of Operating Privilege of Bardwell (1978)
30 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Boockholdt v. Brown · Pritchett v. Pritchett
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Since the statute does not set out what constitutes a complete test, we do not think it a salutary practice to let the Intoximeter operator have an unfettered right to determine what is or is not a complete test. Where the statute fails to set out what constitutes a `complete' test, we hold that a showing that the driver did not complete this test (within the judgment of the operator) is not evidence of a `refusal to submit' within the contemplation of that Code section."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]henever a superior court judge is required by law to make certain findings in order to return a verdict [sic], the presumption is that he has made the required findings, absent a showing to the contrary. This presumption applies even if the required findings are not specifically set out in the order. [Cit.P”
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.