State v. Drubert’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2011
4 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 COMBS, AUDITOR v. Cook · State Ex Rel. Van Natta v. Rising · Kleaving v. Board of Directors of Middlefork Watershed Conservancy District · Terre Haute First National Bank v. Stewart · Ajabu v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is apparent from a review of the Habitual Offender Act as a whole that the prohibitions against driving while suspended as an habitual violator are intended to apply to drivers of motor vehicles the operation of which requires a license. ... We do not believe the legislature could have intended, under the statute prohibiting operation of a motor vehicle while a person's driving privileges are suspended, to criminalize an activity like Drubert's, for which "driving privileges" are not required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyles v. State“exeludes motorized bicycles, two- or three-wheeled vehicle that are propelled by an internal combustion engine or an electric motor, and which operate at not more than twenty-five miles per hour on a flat surface. By contrast, the definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armstead v. State“His motion was granted and the State appealed. Id. On appeal, our court observed that a driver's license is not required for the operation of a moped and under title 9, article 21, a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyles 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.