State v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 38 Cal. 4th 811 - People v. Thompson (2006), City of Middletown v. Flinchum (2002)
32 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Payton v. New York · Schmerber v. State of California · Welsh v. Wisconsin · Minnesota v. Olson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the percentage of alcohol in the blood begins to diminish shortly after drinking stops, as the body functions to eliminate it from the system.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shriner · State v. Shriner“might have dissipated while a warrant was being obtained,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Wehmas · State v. Shriner“the need to preserve evidence of [the defendant's] blood alcohol level is a compelling exigent circumstance under the `destruction of evidence' exception to the warrant requirement first recognized [in Schmerber ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shriner
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.