State v. Montieth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2018
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the state produces evidence of [driving while intoxicated], together with any act of negligence causing death, there is sufficient connection between the drunkenness and the negligence to constitute gross negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lupro v. State“keep off the highways those drivers whose judgment, vision, reflexes, and ability to see and react have been impaired by drink”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller“One who is considerate of the rights of others does not drive while he is drunk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lupro v. State
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.