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← 2013 ND 122 - State v. Keller

State v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Williams v. Illinois · State v. Schwalk · Schwind v. Director, North Dakota Department of Transportation

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the documentary evidence and the testimony of the participants in administering the test do not show scrupulous compliance with the methods approved by the State Toxicologist, the statutory mode of authentication cannot be used. In that case, the general rule of NDREv 901(a) applies and, a majority of this [Cjourt holds, “the State must establish that there were sufficient indicia of reliability in the collection and submission of the blood sample” through expert testimony that establishes fair administration of the test.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]hen the deviation from the approved method could not have affected the reliability or accuracy of the test results, the deviation does not render the test results inadmissible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “I received the container. I sealed it. I initialed the seal and everything. I filled out the rest of the proper paper work. I put it back in the canister. I sealed the canister.”
    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.