Shorter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably DeVaney v. State (1972), Poulnot v. District of Columbia (1992)
30 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 United States v. Trenton Potteries Co. · Evans v. United States · Parks v. State · Evans v. United States · Beeman v. State
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.
““ ‘Under the influence of intoxicating liquor’ are words in common use — they are not words of technical nature— and are well understood by the laity, who know they refer to the impaired condition of thought and action, and the loss of the normal control of one’s faculties to a marked degree, caused by drinking intoxicating liquors.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . involves a conscious choice of a course of action which injures another, either with knowledge of the serious danger to others involved therein, or with knowledge of facts which would disclose the danger to any reasonable man. . . .” Beeman v. State (1953), 232 Ind. 683, 691 , 115 N.E.2d 919 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The offense defined by the statute is not the operation of a motor vehicle by one who is drunk or intoxicated, but ‘while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.’ It is evident that in the enactment of the statute the lawmakers intended to relieve the state from making proof that the offender was drunk, in the meaning of that word as commonly used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Painter
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.