8 Utah 2d 287 - Ringwood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Gottschalk v. Sueppel (1966), 26 Utah 2d 392 - State v. Tapp (1971)
34 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.
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.
““Any person who operates any vehicle in this state shall be deemed to have given his consent to a chemical analysis of his blood, urine,, breath or other bodily substance for the purpose of determining the amount of alcohol in his blood, as provided in SDC 1960 Supp. 44.0302-1, provided that such test is administered at the direction of a police officer having reasonable grounds to believe such person to have been driving under the influence of alcoholic liquor and that such person has been charged with a traffic violation. Such person shall be requested by said officer to submit to such analysis and shall be advised by said officer of his right to refuse to submit to such analysis and the applicable provisions of this section in the event of such refusal with respect to the revocation of such person’s driving permit. If such person, after request and explanation as hereinbefore provided, shall refuse to submit to such chemical analysis, then such test shall not be given * * *. “Upon the request of the person who was tested, the results of such analysis shall be made available to him. “Only a physician, laboratory technician, or medical technician or medic'al technologist acting at the request of a law enforcement officer can withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the al coholic content therein. This limitation shall not apply to the taking of a urine, breath or other bodily substance specimen. “The person tested shall be permitted to have a physician, laboratory techn”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stensland v. Smith“If such person has been placed under arrest and has thereafter been requested to submit to any one of the above chemical tests and refuses to submit to such chemical test, the test shall not be given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turner“* * * in case of alternative choices, he [the defendant] can comply by selecting the one which is the least burdensome or least offensive to him”
1 later decision 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.