Lattarulo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Connecticut v. Porter (1997), Pye v. State (1998)
73 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Harper v. State · Caldwell v. State · Lester v. State · 175 Ga. App. 463 - Peters v. State
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the expert testimony introduced by [the defendant] does not indicate that the Intoximeter 3000 test is not based on sound scientific theory[;] rather it indicates only that the test has some margin for error or may give an erroneous result under certain circumstances. As we noted above, no procedure is infallible. An accused may always introduce evidence of the possibility of error or circumstances that might have caused the machine to malfunction. Such evidence would relate to the weight rather than the admissibility of breathalyzer results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“trial courts may take judicial notice that the Intoximeter 3000 machine test results are based on accepted scientific theory or “rest upon the laws of nature”; and, when the statutory requirements for admissibility are met, the results may be admitted into evidence without expert testimony regarding the scientific theory behind the operation of the test.”
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.