State v. Christmas’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2020
1 district · 13 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · State v. Rojo · State v. Torres · State v. Apodaca · Commonwealth v. Barud
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhen alcohol is.ingested, it travels first to the stomach, and is eventually absorbed into the bloodstream. During this first stage, or ‘absorption stage,’ an individual’s BAC continues to rise. However, absorption rates can vary tremendously, based on any number of anatomical, physiological, and situational factors. At some point, the alcohol level in a person’s blood or breath reaches a second stage, or ‘peak level.’ After the BAC reaches a peak, an individual enters the so-called ‘elimination phase,’ as alcohol is metabolized by the body and the BAC level begins to decline. . . . [Tjhese three phases can overlap, because the body begins the process of elimination even as it may still be absorbing alcohol .... [Tjhis phenomena [can be described] as an ‘alcohol time response curve,’ that can vary greatly with the individual and the situation. .. . [I]t is not always possible to tell whether an individual’s BAC was on the rise, at its peak, or on the decline at some earlier point in time, like the time of driving[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Chakerian“both the legislature and our Supreme Court contemplated tolerance of some reasonable and inevitable delay in testing, and intended that otherwise valid test results would be admitted into evidence notwithstanding such a delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he longer the delay between the time of [the] incident and [the] sample collection, the more difficult it becomes, scientifically, to draw reasonable inferences from one data point, back to the driving time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hughey
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.