Rettig v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2011
2 district · 18 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 Bureau of Mines v. George's Creek Coal and Land Co. · 33 Ill. App. 3d 736 - People v. Guynn · Richmond v. State · Atkinson v. State · Office & Professional Employees International Union, Local 2 v. Mass Transit Administration
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have recognized previously that Maryland’s drunk driving provisions generally were enacted for the protection of the public. The menace posed by an impaired driver on purely private property is sometimes no different from that posed by one who ventures onto property open to the public generally____Furthermore, there is never a guarantee that a vehicle driven by someone in an impaired condition will remain off the roadways for long.”
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.