343 Ill. App. 504 - People v. Bobczyk’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably Breithaupt v. Abram (1957), Reed v. State (1978)
50 state decisions — followed in 16 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 People v. Morse · 311 Ill. App. 459 - Suppe v. Sako · The People v. Terrill · 318 Ill. App. 287 - Cox v. Hrasky
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant argues that there is a lack of unanimity in the medical profession as to whether intoxication can be determined by breath. Even so we think this objection goes to the weight of the testimony and does not destroy its admissibility. The evidence in this case shows that the experts called by the State are eminently qualified in the field in question. . . .” (pp. 510, 511.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he need of a scientific means of determining with certainty the degree of intoxication resulting from the amount of alcohol in the blood, in order to eliminate guesswork and speculation, particularly in so-called `borderline cases'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peterson v. State“[m]edical science recognizes sixty pathological conditions which produce symptoms similar to those produced by alcohol, . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peterson v. State
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.