State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 753 - Mercer v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1991), 230 Pa. Super. 563 - Commonwealth v. Kloch (1974)
109 state decisions — followed in 27 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 State v. Harold · Gibbs v. State of Arizona · State of Arizona v. Ponce · De Hart v. Gray
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While at the precise moment defendant was apprehended he may have been exercising no conscious volition with regard to the vehicle, still there is a legitimate inference to be drawn that defendant had of his own choice placed himself behind the wheel thereof, and had either started the motor or permitted it to run. He therefore had the “actual physical control” of that vehicle, even though the manner in which such control was exercised resulted in the vehicle’s remaining motionless at the time of his apprehension.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is unlawful and punishable as provided in § 28-692.01 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.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“enable the drunken driver to be apprehended before he strikes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.