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Seth v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

3 district · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2019

3 district · 13 state decisions

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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 Schmerber v. State of California · South Dakota v. Neville · Winston v. Lee · Hughes v. State · Darling Apartment Co. v. Springer

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

  1. “21 Del. C. § 2740 renders the operation of a motor vehicle a constructive consent of the operator to submit to testing for alcohol or drugs by an officer having ‘probable cause to believe’ the operator was in violation of ... § 4177 or § 2742.”). . 21 Del. C. § 2750(a). . See 21 Del. C. § 2740(a). . See 21 Del. C. § 2742(a). . 21 Del. C. § 2746. . McCann v. State, 588 A.2d 1100, 1102 (Del.1991) (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[W]hen statutory language is both clear and consistent with other provisions of the same legislation and with legislative purpose and intent, a court must give effect to that intent because it is for the legislature, and not the courts, to declare the public policy of the State.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.