State v. Nagel’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Hulse v. State, Department of Justice (1998), State v. Ferreira (1999)
2 district · 32 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, an individual must perform certain maneuvers not normally performed in public, and, thus, the tests expose to view certain things not otherwise obvious through passive observation of an individual. Unlike the quality of one’s voice or one’s handwriting, people do not regularly display that type of behavior to the public — there is no reason to believe that motorists regularly stand alongside a public road reciting the alphabet, count backward from 107, stand upon one leg while counting from 1001 to 1030, or walk a line, forward and back, counting steps and touching heel to toe. Second, an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the information an officer obtains from the field sobriety tests. The court explained that like the chemical analysis of urine, “a field sobriety test may reveal evidence of equally private facts about an individual, including whether the individual is illiterate, has [A]lzheimer’s disease, or suffers from multiple sclerosis.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a search conducted with probable cause and under exigent circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the open driver-side window of defendant's truck because the wind was blowing, and he did not want the papers to blow away. While Allori was explaining the citation to defendant, he smelled a strong odor of alcohol on defendant's breath and, after investigating his suspicions, Allori arrested defendant for driving under the influence of intoxicants. The trial court denied defendant's motion to suppress. It found”
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.