State v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2003
8 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 State v. Kvam · Willems v. Commissioner of Public Safety · State, Department of Public Safety v. Mulvihill · McIntee v. State, Department of Public Safety · Pruszinske v. State, Commissioner of Highways, State Department of Public Safety
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Considering Hanson’s three alcohol-related driving incidents in a five-year period and believing that the commissioner’s policy of cancelling the license of any driver with such a record is valid policy, we conclude that the court’s order was wrong on the merits also.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The department shall not issue a driver’s license hereunder; ⅜ ⅜ ¥ ⅜ ¾* ⅜ (8) To any person when the commissioner has good cause to believe that the operation of a motor vehicle on the highways by such person would be inimical to public safety or welfare.”
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.