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← 285 Mont. 124 - State v. Woods

State v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
August 2009
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. West · State v. McDonald · State v. Woods · State v. O'BRIAN

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

  1. “Field Certification (1) Breath analysis instruments shall be field certified for accuracy at least once every seven (7) days .... (b) A field certification is valid when the results of the approved ethyl alcohol solution test is at target value plus or minus one hundredth (.01) grams per two hundred and ten liters.... (i) A proper field certification prior to any subject test and a proper field certification following a subject test shall create the inference that the breath analysis instrument was in proper working order at the time of the subject test. (j) A breath analysis instrument’s field certification shall be considered valid for seven (7) days forward from the date of a proper field certification.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “ethyl alcohol solution will not be used for more than 20 analyses or longer than two months after its first date of use, which ever comes first.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.