State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably 8 Cal. 4th 587 - People v. Leahy (1994), State v. Shadden (2010)
2 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Superior Court · State v. Williams · State v. Lewis · Lloyd v. Lloyd · State v. Degnan
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nystagmus is described as an involuntary jerking of the eyeball, a condition that may be aggravated by the effect of chemical depressants on the central nervous system.” State v. Sullivan, 310 S.C. 311 , 315 n. 2, 426 S.E.2d 766 , 769 n. 2 (1993).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · State v. Gordon“We hold that evidence arising from HGN tests is not conclusive proof of DUI. A positive HGN test result is to be regarded as merely circumstantial evidence of DUI. Furthermore, HGN tests shall not constitute evidence to establish a specific degree of blood alcohol content. (Citations omitted). We hold that testimony relating to the HGN test was admissible in the present case because the HGN test was used in conjunction with other field sobriety tests to establish evidence of DUI.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clute“skepticism regarding HGN tests and not[ing] that nystagmus may be caused by physiological forces other than alcohol consumption. Additionally, the circuit court related reservations about police officers conducting and interpreting a medical/scientific test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.