State v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1992 · most notably State v. Johnson (1964), District of Columbia v. Colts (1930)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 16 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. Anderson · State v. Gratz · State v. Godwinsville & Paterson Macadamized Road Co.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be noticed that it is not essential to the existence of the statutory offense that the driver of the automobile should be so intoxicated that he cannot safely drive a car. The expression `under the influence of intoxicating liquor' covers not only all the well-known and easily recognized conditions and degrees of intoxication, but any abnormal mental or physical condition which is the result of indulging in any degree in intoxicating liquors and which tends to deprive him of that clearness of intellect and control of himself which he would otherwise possess.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Any person or persons who shall operate an automobile or motor or any other vehicle over any public street or highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquors shall be adjudged to be a disorderly person, * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even though he drives so slowly and so skillfully and carefully that the public is not annoyed or endangered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Landry v. Hoepfner
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.