State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 257 - Burg v. Municipal Court (1983), Fuenning v. SUPER. CT. IN AND FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA (1983)
26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion, there is sufficient “foundation”, as a matter of either common knowledge or of scientific and medical knowledge, to make “relevant” testimony of the absence of such observable symptoms [of intoxication] as circumstantial evidence not only upon the question whether the driver of a motor vehicle is “under the influence of intoxicating liquor” . . ., but also upon the question whether . . . “chemical analysis” of the breath of a driver showing a blood alcohol content of .10 percent or more was an accurate “chemical analysis”, without requiring the defendant to “lay a foundation” by expert testimony. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Denison v. Anchorage
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.