7 Haw. App. 532 - State v. Wetzel’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2012
16 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 Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6 · State v. Tischio · State v. Grindles · Haskins v. Virginia · 8 Va. App. 291 - Davis v. Commonwealth
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.
“Sec. 11721. Driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Whoever operates or assumes actual physical control of the operation of any vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Sec. 11722. Evidence of intoxication. In any criminal prosecution for a violation of section 11721, the amount of alcohol in the defendant’s blood within three hours after the time of the alleged violation as shown by chemical analysis of the defendant’s blood, urine, breath or other bodily substance shall be competent evidence that the defendant was under the influence of intoxicating liquor at the time of the alleged violation and shall give rise [to the presumption of intoxication at the time of the alleged violation if the defendant’s blood alcohol content was 0.15 per cent or more, by weight of alcohol]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Nesmith
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.