Slaughter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1998
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.
Relationships
Relies on Henry v. State · Coxe v. State
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.
“Before the defendant may be found guilty of driving while under the influence of alcohol, the State must prove both of the following two elements beyond a reasonable doubt: First, that the defendant drove a motor vehicle at or about the time and place charged; Second, that the defendant was under the influence of alcohol while he drove the motor vehicle. Not every person who has consumed alcoholic beverages is “under the influence” as that phrase is used here. The evidence must show that the person has consumed a sufficient amount of alcohol to cause the driver to be less able to exercise the judgment and control that a reasonably careful person in full possession of his or her faculties would exercise under like circumstances. It is not necessary that the driver be “drunk” or “intoxicated.” Nor is it required that impaired ability to drive be demonstrated by particular acts of unsafe driving. What is required is that the person’s ability to drive safely was impaired by alcohol. The law provides that any person who operated a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and whose blood alcohol concentration is one tenth of one percent or more by weight as shown by a chemical analysis of a blood, breath or urine sample taken within four hours of driving a motor vehicle, shall be guilty of the offense of driving while under the influence of alcohol. This provision does not preclude a conviction based on other evidence. In this case the State presented the results of the [”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State“The statute provides for no presumption of guilt, but instead provides that any person having the specified blood alcohol concentration “shall be guilty.” To establish guilt, the State must prove only that the defendant was in physical control of the vehicle, and that a proper and timely test showed the required percentage of alcohol concentrated in the defendant’s system....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State
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