State v. Harold’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Campbell v. Superior Court (1971), State v. Webb (1954)
60 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 Butane Corporation v. Kirby · 9 Cal. 2d 508 - People v. Biggs · Black & White Taxicab Co. v. Standard Oil Co. · In Re Lewkowitz · Taylor v. Frohmiller
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It appears to us to be even more important for the legislature to prevent operators of cars who are under the influence of intoxicating liquors or who are at the time driving recklessly and in wilful and wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property, from entering upon the highways and into the stream of traffic than to permit them to enter thereon and after a tragic accident has happened to punish them for maiming or causing the death of those who are lawfully in the use of such highways. * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith, which subject shall be expressed in the title; but if any subject shall be embraced in an act which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be embraced in the title.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gastelum · Allen v. Girard““A. It is unlawful ... for any person who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor to drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle within this state”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker · State v. Webb
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.