116 Pa. Commw. 243 - Ostrander v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Com., Dept. of Transp. v. McFarren · 68 Pa. Commw. 541 - Waigand v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. Sinwell · Commonwealth v. Ferrara · 112 Pa. Commw. 510 - Bush v. Commonwealth
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) [T]he defendant was placed under arrest upon the charge of driving while intoxicated, and the arresting officer had reasonable grounds to believe the defendant was driving while intoxicated; 2) that he was requested to submit to a breathalyzer test; and 3) he refused to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) ... The procedures for alcohol breath testing shall include, at a minimum: (1) Two consecutive actual breath tests, without a required waiting period between the two tests. (2) ... The lower of the two actual breath test results will be the result used for prosecution. The test results will be disregarded ... if one of the following occurs: (i) If the difference between the results of the two alcohol tests is .02 or more____”
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.