State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2009
7 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 South Dakota v. Neville · State v. Pigques · State v. Morton · State v. Cameron · State v. Griffin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it has been held to be error to admit such evidence, City of St. Joseph v. Johnson, 539 S.W.2d 784 (Mo.App.1976), such error is harmless where, as here, other evidence of guilt is strong. State v. Bellew, 586 S.W.2d 461 (Mo.App.1979). Moreover, the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized that evidence concerning a driver’s refusal to take a sobriety test “is similar to other circumstantial evidence of consciousness of guilt, such as escape from custody and suppression of evidence.” South Dakota v. Neville, 459 U.S. 553 , 103 S.Ct. 916, 921 , 74 L.Ed.2d 748 (1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spain
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.