Greaves v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 257 - Burg v. Municipal Court (1983), Commonwealth v. Mikulan (1983)
52 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Morissette v. United States · United States v. Harriss · Powell v. Texas · 13 Utah 2d 195 - State v. Brennan · 8 Utah 2d 314 - State v. Twitchell
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We can see no reason why a person of ordinary intelligence would have any difficulty in understanding that if he has drunk anything containing alcohol, and particularly any substantial amount thereof, he should not attempt to drive or take control of a motor vehicle." (Id. at 808.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“. a statute will not be declared unconstitutional for that reason [vagueness] if under any sensible interpretation of its language it can be given practical effect. The requirement is that it must be sufficiently clear and definite to inform persons of ordinary intelligence what their conduct must be to conform to its requirements and to advise one accused of violating it what constitutes the offense with which he is charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blowers · State v. Turner“are endowed with a strong presumption of validity; and that they should not be declared unconstitutional if there is any reasonable basis upon which they can be found to come within the constitutional frame work [sic]... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mohi · Murray City v. Hall
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.