State v. Crediford’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Amalgamated Transit v. State (2000), State v. Sullivan (2001)
45 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burks v. United States · Morissette v. United States · Kolender v. Lawson · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very person accused of a crime is constitutionally endowed with an overriding presumption of innocence, a presumption that extends to every element of the charged offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. TC · State v. Mason“(1) A person is guilty of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug if the person drives a vehicle within this state: "(a) And the person has 0.10 grams or more of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of breath within two hours after driving, as shown by analysis of the person's breath made under RCW 46.61.506; or "(b) And the person has 0.10 percent or more by weight of alcohol in the person's blood within two hours after driving, as shown by analysis of the person's blood made under RCW 46.61.506; or "(c) While the person is under the influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor or any drug; or "(d) While the person is under the combined influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor and any drug.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robbins · State v. Robbins“implied element” in the statute: It is equally clear to us, however, that the Legislature did not intend, by enacting this statute, to punish persons for the consumption of alcohol that was not associated with the operation of a motor vehicle. We say this despite the fact that a literal reading of [the”
3 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.