State v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Intoxication may be proven by the defendant's behavior including observations made by a trained professional concerning the defendant's motor vehicle operation, the driver's loss of balance, slurred speech, lack of body coordination, and impairment of motor reflexes, or the driver's refusal to take a breathalyzer test[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mack

2. “Intoxication may be proven by the defendant's behavior including: loss of balance, slurred speech, lack of body coordination, and impairment of motor reflexes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mack

3. “experience and expertise enable the judge to consider appropriate sentencing factors and to disregard improper matters.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. State