State v. Snipes’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2006
15 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 In Re Martin · 175 Cal. App. 2d 862 - In re Newbern · State v. Hinojosa · State v. Munsey · 41 Wis. 2d 146 - First Credit Corp. v. Myricks
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]olice officers are not required to take the initiative or even to assist in procuring any evidence on behalf of a defendant which is deemed necessary to his defense (citations omitted). But in no event can duly constituted authority hamper or interfere with efforts on the part of an accused to obtain a sampling of his blood, without denying to him due process of law. We are persuaded to such conclusion in any instance where the conduct of the authorities, whether through affirmative action or by the imposition of their rules and regulations, imposes any material obstacle in the path of the accused. Nor are we impressed that an accused, as perhaps in the instant case, might have reached his goal by pursuing a different course. It is sufficient if, in seeking to establish the fact of the alcoholic content of his blood, the authorities, by their actions or regulations, frustrate his reasonable efforts designed to produce probative evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Swanson“The failure or inability to obtain an additional test by a person shall not preclude the admissibility into evidence of the test taken at the direction of a law enforcement officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of due process is to prevent fundamental unfairness, and one of its essential elements is the opportunity to defend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Anstey
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.