State v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Burnside (2003), State v. Homan (2000)
109 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 56 Wash. 2d 846 - State v. Baker · Wester v. State · 23 Ill. App. 3d 398 - People v. Crawford
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere assertion that ingestion was hypothetically possible ought not to vitiate the observation period * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]bserve subject for twenty minutes prior to testing to prevent oral intake of any material.”
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.