State v. Uhler’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2011
15 state decisions
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 Commonwealth v. Redline · Commonwealth v. Root · State v. Petersen · 103 Ga. App. 36 - Thacker v. State · 17 Or. App. 478 - State v. Petersen
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. at 38 . In Uhler, the defendant was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide. While the evidence showed that the defendant and the decedent were drag racing and speeding, no contact occurred between the two vehicles. The court granted the defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal. The court reasoned that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the better view * * * would be not to impose criminal liability for aggravated vehicular homicide on the survivor of a drag race whose only contribution to the death of the other participant was his own participation in the race.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]hether or not a charge of aggravated vehicular homicide can be sustained against a defendant who is the survivor of a drag race in which the other voluntary participant met his death, absent any contact between the vehicles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.