State v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably State v. Winn (1959), State v. Paul (1969)
58 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. Noland · State v. Taylor · State v. Tippett · State ex rel. Heimburger v. Wells · Ex parte Kneedler
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““577.060. Leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident 1. A person commits the crime of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident when being the operator or driver of a vehicle on the highway and knowing that an injury has been caused to a person or damage has been caused to property, due to his culpability or to accident, he leaves the place of the injury, damage or accident without stopping and giving his name, residence, including city and street number, motor vehicle number and chauffeur’s or registered operator’s number, if any, to the injured party or to a police officer, or if no police officer is in the vicinity, then to the nearest police station or judicial officer. 2. Leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident is a class D felony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The obvious purpose of the statute is to prevent “those controlling and operating automobiles from concealing their identity by immediate flight from the scene of [the] accident”; “ * * * to obtain * * * information * * * of a nature which will identify him readily”; “* * * to prevent drivers from seeking to evade prosecution by escaping before their identify can be determined”; and “ * * * to sufficiently establish the identity of the parties so that they and police authorities may know with whom to deal in matters growing out of the accident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hopkins“We think the word “knowing”, as used in the statute, means actual knowledge rather than mere constructive knowledge, or such notice as would put one on inquiry, and more than mere negligence in failing to know, or the mere presence of facts which might have induced the belief in the mind of a reasonable person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.