Doyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Commonwealth v. Maxwell (1984), In Re Anthony F. (1982)
1 district · 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Matlock · Frazier v. Cupp · Beckwith v. United States
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.
“If you find that a breath examination accurately established the defendant’s [blood] alcohol content to be [.10 percent] or greater, and if you find no other believable evidence of his condition, then you may rely solely on the test as a basis for finding that the defendant was under the influence of intoxicating liquor at the time charged. However, if you do find that there is other believable evidence showing that the defendant may not have been under the influence of intoxicating liquor at the time charged then you must decide the issue based on a careful consideration of all the facts and circumstances in evidence bearing on the defendant’s condition, no longer relying exclusively on the results of the breath test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pilant v. State“which is precisely what AS 28.35.033 contemplates. That provision reads, in pertinent part: ... the amount of alcohol in the person's blood at the time alleged, as shown by chemical analysis of the person's breath, shall give rise to the following presumptions ... [Emphasis added.] Thus, under the wording of AS 28.35.033, the breathalyzer result is clearly viewed as the presumptive equivalent of the amount of alcohol in the person's blood”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... up to the jury to decide the weight to be given to that evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tyner v. State
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.