State v. Friend’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2018
6 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. Meanor · State v. Clay · State v. Falcone · Ex Parte Bregenzer · State v. Owen
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prima facie case for impairment from alcohol has been set by statute and is established when blood alcohol concentration reaches eight-hundredths of one percent. The effects of excessive consumption of alcohol are well-known and relatively easy to identify and include, among other things, loss of balance and bloodshot eyes, and frequently is identified by its odor. Drug impairment, however, is different. Different drugs have varying effects on behavior and do not necessarily produce readily recognizable symptoms and behavior patterns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Jungerman“Other jurisdictions having statutes similar to Missouri’s[ 3 ] have concluded that the proof required to establish driving under the influence of drugs should be no greater and no different from the proof required to establish driving under the influence of alcohol, other than the evidence must relate to the particular substance involved. “There is no reason why the same level of proof should not suffice to support a conviction for driving under the influence of drugs.” (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoy“[d]rugs do not necessarily produce readily recognizable symptoms and behavior patterns. We are left to speculate whether the level of [the drug charged] in the defendant’s system was sufficient to cause the behavior described, and if so, whether the symptoms described were the result of [the drug] or some other cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clarkston
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.