5 Misc. 2d 699 - People v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
December 1974
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Kovacik · People v. Ward · People v. Coppock
Most-quoted passages
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“the very name of the device— 'Drunkometer' — might very well be misinterpreted to mean that only those who were 'drunk' or intoxicated were to be tested by it; that the very name somehow lent weight to the result which it produced. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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