State v. Batterman’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1985 · most notably Blow v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles (1969), 82 Wash. 2d 865 - State v. Wetherell (1973)
4 district · 30 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 Elfring v. Paterson · In Re Schneider's Estate · People v. Ward
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The object of the rule of pari materia is to ascertain and carry into effect the intention of the legislature. It proceeds upon the supposition that, the several statutes were governed by one spirit and policy, and were intended to be consistent and harmonious in their several parts and provisions. * * * 79 S.D. at 199 , 110 N.W.2d at 143 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is unlawful and punishable 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 passage“comprehends either a formal charge or the informal charge of an arresting officer' and it does not have to be a valid arrest.”
2 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.