Missouri v. McNeely’s Empirical Analysis
569 U.S. 141 · 2013
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Department Of Commerce v. New York (2019), Olevik v. State (2017)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 168 state decisions — followed in 38 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 23 U.S.C. § 163
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schmerber v. State of California · Johnson v. United States · Rochin v. People of California · Tennessee v. Garner
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o one can seriously dispute the magnitude of the drunken driving problem or the States' interest in eradicating it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Numerous police actions are judged based on fact-intensive, totality of the circumstances analyses rather than according to categorical rules, including in situations that are more likely to require police officers to make difficult split-second judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“While the desire for a bright-line rule is understandable, the Fourth Amendment will not tolerate adoption of an overly broad categorical approach that would dilute the warrant requirement in a context where significant privacy interests are at stake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.