Boyce v. Backes’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2025
9 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 · Schwind v. Director, North Dakota Department of Transportation · Bickler v. North Dakota State Highway Commissioner · North Dakota Department of Transportation v. DuPaul
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not appropriate to measure the reasonableness of an accused’s opportunity to contact an attorney by the maximum amount of time that the police may have to administer the most useful test to prove a licensee’s intoxication. In some cases, to do so would unduly delay and extend the booking, observation, and testing processes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(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 · from the concurrence“we consider whether the agency reasonably reached its factual determinations from the greater weight of all the evidence.”
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.