State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2002
9 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. Thomte · 115 Ill. App. 3d 302 - People v. Schuberth · State v. Moore · Commonwealth v. Hanes · Ontiveros v. Arizona Department of Transportation
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An arrested motorist refuses to submit to a chemical test authorized by [§ 60-6,197(4)] to determine the motorist’s blood-alcohol level when the motorist’s conduct, demonstrated under the circumstances confronting the officer requesting the chemical test, justifies a reasonable person’s belief that the motorist understood the officer’s request for a test and manifested a refusal or unwillingness to submit to the requested test. [Citations omitted.] Anything less than an unqualified, unequivocal assent to an arresting officer’s request to submit to a chemical test constitutes a motorist’s refusal to submit to a chemical test authorized by [§ 60-6,197(4)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“notwithstanding an arrested motorist’s expressed consent or agreement to take a breath test authorized by [§ 60-6,197(4)], the motorist’s subsequent conduct may be the basis for an inference that the motorist has withdrawn or revoked the previous consent to such test or has feigned consent to the test and, therefore, has refused to submit to the statutorily authorized breath test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any person arrested as provided in this section may, upon the direction of a law enforcement officer, be required to submit to a chemical test of his or her blood, breath, or urine for a determination of the alcohol content. Any person who refuses to submit to a chemical blood, breath, or urine test required pursuant to this section shall be . . . guilty of a crime____”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beerbohm
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.