State v. Huggins’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2021
14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Palmer v. Hoffman · Mattox v. United States · Kirby v. United States · Metropolitan Ry Co v. Church Brightwood Ry Co · Hoffman v. Palmer
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An official would have no motive to misrepresent those facts [regarding breathalyzer calibration and certification] because the nexus between his findings and a particular result on a particular prosecution is too attenuated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ruiz · Wassillie v. State“We believe [Alaska's statutes] which make proffering false evidence a felony, act as sufficient deterrents to the illegal use of an official's facsimile signature or seal so as to justify reliance on facsimiles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ampule certification and breathalyzer calibration need not be the subject of personal testimony and are clearly admissible under the official records exception to the hearsay rule”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abyo v. State
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.