State v. Pettyjohn’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · State v. Jeffries · Lamphere v. State · State v. Jensen · State v. Wales
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits [vehicular homicide] when the person unintentionally causes the death of another by ... a. Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or a drug or a combination of such substances or while having an alcohol concentration of .10 or more, in violation of section 321J.2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hubka
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.