Ehrlich v. Backes’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2024
14 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Friedman v. Commissioner of Public Safety · 267 Cal. App. 2d 545 - Rust v. Department of Motor Vehicles · McDonnell v. Commissioner of Public Safety · 16 Cal. App. 3d 491 - Cahall v. Department of Motor Vehicles
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ‘confusion doctrine’ provides that when an arresting officer introduces the question of a drunken-driving suspect’s right to counsel by giving a Miranda warning prior to requesting a chemi cal test, the suspect’s subsequent refusal to take a test until an attorney is consulted may not constitute a ‘refusal to submit’ to a chemical test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blomeyer v. State“(1) the findings of fact are supported by a preponderance of the evidence, (2) the conclusions of law are sustained by the findings of fact, and (3) the decision is supported by the conclusions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e do not make independent findings or substitute our judgment for that of the agency.”
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.