Hasten v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Sisneros (1938), State v. Hardy (1971)
2 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 13 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 80 Cal. App. 200 - People v. McKee · 56 Cal. App. 445 - People v. Dingle · 71 Cal. App. 239 - People v. Ekstromer · State v. Noble · 26 Ga. App. 64 - Hart 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a truism that a person who is even to the slightest extent ‘under the influence of liquor,’ in the common and well-understood acceptation of the term, is to some degree at least less able, either mentally or physically or both, to exercise the clear judgment and steady hand necessary to handle as powerful and dangerous a mechanism as a modern automobile with safety to himself and the public. With the increasing number and speed of automobiles on our highways, and the appalling number of accidents resulting therefrom, it is not strange that the law-making power determined that any person, who of his own free will voluntarily lessened in the slightest degree his ability to handle such vehicles by the use of intoxicating liquor, should, while in such condition, be debarred from their use. The legislature has placed no limitation on the extent of the influence required, nor can we add to their language.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is appellant’s claim that this means in effect ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor to the extent of impairing to an appreciable degree his ability to operate his car in the manner that an ordinarily prudent and cautious man, in the full possession of his faculties and using reasonable care, would operate a similar vehicle under similar conditions.’ It is the contention of the state, on the other hand, that the law means ‘any influence of intoxicating liquor, however slight,’ and the trial court instructed the jury on this latter theory.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Glanzman · Molina v. State“The expression, "under the influence of intoxicating liquor," covers not only all the well known and easily recognized conditions and degrees of intoxication, but any abnormal mental or physical condition which is the result of indulging in any degree in intoxicating liquors, and which tends to deprive [a person] of that clearness of intellect and control of himself which he would otherwise possess. So one driving an automobile upon a public street while under the influence of intoxicating liquor [violates the statute] even though he drives so slowly and so skillfully and carefully that the public is not annoyed or endangered. In State v. Noble, 119 Or. 674 , 250 P. 833 , the court distinguished between being "in an intoxicating condition" [and being] "under the influence of intoxicating liquor," and held that [under] the latter phrase the state was not bound to prove that the defendant was drunk or intoxicated, but only to show that he was under the influence of intoxicating liquor to some perceptible degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molina 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.