393 N.J. Super. 28 - State v. Dorman’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. “decisions [applying Crawford] have a common element triggering a defendant’s right of confrontation: the State’s use of a document created for the specific purpose of establishing an essential element of the offense. By contrast, the certificates of operability at issue here were not created with any specific case in mind. These operability certificates are intended to document the regular business function of maintaining a particular breathalyzer machine. As such, these documents are properly admissible as a business record under N.J.R.E. 803(c)(6). [Id. at 33, 922 A.2d 766 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sweet

2. “the operator must be sure that at least twenty minutes have expired since the last ingestion of alcohol to avoid the presence of `mouth' alcohol, which can give a falsely high reading.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 409 N.J. Super. 246 - State v. Filson