24 Ohio App. 3d 38 - State v. Finch’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 111 Ohio App. 3d 142 - State v. Medcalf (1996), 126 Ohio App. 3d 95 - State v. Lloyd (1998)
3 federal appellate · 61 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 Keeble v. United States · United States v. White · State v. Heston · City of Oregon v. Szakovits · State v. Darrah
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar, there is no evidence that the officer witnessed any impaired motor coordination on the part of appellee, and it is not a violation of the law to drive smelling of alcohol, or with bloodshot eyes, a flushed face, or slurred speech. In other words, merely appearing to be too drunk to drive is not, in our opinion, enough to constitute probable cause for arrest. Had [the officer] instructed appellee to perform field sobriety tests prior to placing him under arrest, and had appellee failed the tests, she would have had reasonable grounds to believe that he was operating the vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, at which time she would have had probable cause to arrest appellee. The record as it stands, however, indicates that the arrest at issue was premature.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to effect an arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol, * * * when the officer arrived shortly after an automobile accident, and the defendant appeared intoxicated and admitted operating the vehicle. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`it is possible to have a valid arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol even though the arresting officer has not actually observed the arrestee operating a vehicle in an erratic or unsafe manner.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.