Evans v. Backes’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2025
19 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 Kuntz v. State Highway Commissioner · Geo. E. Haggart, Inc. v. North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau · Bromley v. North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau · Skjefte v. Job Service North Dakota · Bickler v. North Dakota State Highway Commissioner
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to submit to testing under Section 39-20-01, there must be a valid request for testing under the statute. In an analogous situation, we have held that a driver's failure to submit to testing, after being denied the statutory right to a reasonable opportunity to consult with an attorney before deciding whether to submit to the test, does not constitute a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Throlson v. Backes“[T]he agency shall make and state concisely and explicitly its findings of fact and its separate conclusions of law....”
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.