State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2019
17 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. Sullivan · State v. Roberts · State v. Rice · State v. Goodchild · State v. Davis
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ntoxication is not a defense unless it establishes a reasonable doubt as to the existence of an element of the offense ... [Since driving under the influence] ... is not subject to the provisions of ... the criminal code requiring a ‘culpable mental state’ ... [and] the only elements of the offense charged are operating a motor vehicle and being under the influence of intoxicating liquor while doing so, it follows that intoxication ... cannot establish a reasonable doubt as to the existence of any element of the ... offense. [ 416 A.2d at 8 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“contributed to the defendant's impairment.”
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.