Richfield City v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2016
9 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 State v. Webb · State, Department of Public Safety v. Juncewski · 36 Wash. App. 439 - State v. Smelter · State v. Ghylin · 25 Utah 2d 404 - State v. Bugger
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether defendant was asleep or awake when discovered; (2) the position of the automobile; (3) whether the automobile’s motor was running; (4) whether defendant was positioned in the driver’s seat of the vehicle; (5) whether defendant was the vehicle’s sole occupant; (6) whether defendant had possession of the ignition key; (7) defendant’s apparent ability to start and move the vehicle; (8) how the car got to where it was found; and (9) whether defendant drove it there.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the legislature deems it desirable to encourage drinking drivers to pull off the road and refrain from driving while intoxicated, it could delete the words 'or be in physical control of [from the relevant statute] to accomplish that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Prawitt“the keys ... still in the ignition and the headlights ... on, [means the driver] is ready to go, and the potential for tragedy is present”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Prawitt
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.