State v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2022
20 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. Spry · Smith v. State · Tyner 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person may not drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle while: (1) There is 0.10 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his blood as shown by chemical analysis of his breath, blood or other bodily substance[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Ladwig · State v. Fode“the evidence necessary to enable the court and/or the jury to extrapolate is required in prosecutions [for driving with a blood alcohol level greater than .10 percent] . . . to obtain instructions on the presumption [that a driver with a blood alcohol content of .10 percent or greater is intoxicated]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.