State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2022
19 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 Fuenning v. SUPER. CT. IN AND FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA · People v. Adams · Matter of Griffiths · State v. Hansen · State v. Hartwig
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule of court, the results of any test for alcohol concentration and records relating to calibration, approval, certification or quality control performed by a laboratory operated or approved by the Idaho department of health and welfare or by any other method approved by health and welfare shall be admissible in any proceeding in this state without the necessity of producing a witness to establish the reliability of the testing procedure for examination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]ost jurisdictions ... hold that compliance with the regulations governing bloodalcohol tests is foundational. The test result is not admissible unless compliance with these regulations is established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“adequate foundation evidence consisting either of expert testimony or a showing that the test was administered in conformity with the applicable test procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mazzuca
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.