State v. McAlister’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2000
11 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. Viator
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" The reason the statute [R.S. 14:98] defines the same crime before and after its amendment is that the essential elements of the crime are unchanged by the amendment, these essential elements being the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated. " (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams“We are persuaded in our decision by the determination of the McAlister and Hightower courts that the use of a motorized vehicle is a pivotal element of the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A. Operating a vehicle while intoxicated is the operating of any motor vehicle *• * ■* while under the influence of alcoholic beverages * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hightower
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.