State v. Baucom’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably State v. Morgan (2002), State v. Landis (2004)
31 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 Kiriakides v. United Artists Communications, Inc. · Strother v. Lexington County Recreation Commission · Berkebile v. Outen · State v. Blackmon · Bay v. South Carolina Highway Department
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any conviction, entry of plea of guilty or of nolo contendere or forfeiture of bail, for the violation of any law or ordinance ... that prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, drugs, or narcotics shall constitute a prior offense for the purpose of any prosecution for any subsequent violation hereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All rules of statutory construction are subservient to the one that the legislative intent must prevail if it can be reasonably discovered in the language used, and that language must be construed in the light of the intended purpose of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Alston“Penal statutes are strictly construed against the State and in favor of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.