349 Pa. Super. 440 - Commonwealth v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. DiFrancesco · 280 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Benson · 283 Pa. Super. 565 - Commonwealth v. Rhem · 253 Pa. Super. 238 - Commonwealth v. Gearhart · 336 Pa. Super. 601 - Commonwealth v. McGinnis
Most-quoted passages
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“The preconditions were established to assure that the results of the test were sufficiently reliable to have probative value. The preconditions involve the integrity of the device itself and the procedure for using it. It cannot be said that the reliability of the test result is vitiated if approval of the device and the procedures comes after the administration of the test. Whether or not the test has probative value is important at the guilt determining phase of the procedure, not necessarily before.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Black
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.