State v. Stauffer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2013
22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of this limitation in the statute is to assure that the test will be fairly and impartially made. An officer, who is present at the scene of the arrest for purposes of assisting in it, if necessary, is an “arresting officer” within the meaning of the statute even though a different officer actually places his hand upon the defendant and informs him that he is under arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[a]n officer, who is present at the scene of the arrest for purposes of assisting in it, if necessary, is an ‘arresting officer’ within the meaning of the statute even though a different officer actually places his hand upon the defendant and informs him that he is under arrest.””
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.