State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2019
12 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 United States v. Frady · South Dakota v. Neville · United States v. Blackwell · United States v. Agnew · State v. Smuda
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The operator of a motor vehicle on a highway or area to which the public has a right to access for vehicular use is deemed to have consented to a chemical test to determine the alcohol content of his blood if arrested for driving or being in actual physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Drivers may refuse to submit to chemical testing. Allowing drivers to refuse testing is a matter of legislative grace. The State wants a driver to choose to take the test, for the inference of intoxication arising from a positive blood-alcohol test is far stronger than that arising from a refusal to take the test. A state may, therefore, attach penalties to a driver’s choice to refuse testing. Our Legislature has attached penalties to an arrested driver’s refusal to submit to testing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“RIGHT OF DRIVER TO REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO CHEMICAL TEST Under North Dakota law, a person has an absolute right to refuse to submit to a chemical test for blood alcohol analysis. If a person refuses to submit to such testing, none may be given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kordonowy
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.