Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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

1. “'The admission of chemical breath test results is left to the sound discretion of the trial court and will be reviewed for an abuse of discretion.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brian Harold Connor v. State of Indiana · Nivens v. State

2. “(a) All breath test equipment approved by the director of the state department of toxicology of Indiana University School of Medicine shall be inspected at least onee each one hundred eighty (180) days at their usual location (building). If such location (building) is changed, the equipment must be reinspected before it can be certified for use. (b) Such inspection shall include verification that the equipment is in good operating condition and satisfies the accuracy requirements set out in subsection (e)(2). (c) Only persons authorized by the director of the state department of toxicology of Indiana University School of Medicine shall inspect approved breath test equipment. (d) All such authorized inspectors shall report their findings to the director. (e) Breath test equipment shall meet the following standards: (1) Tests shall be made using known ethanol-water or ethanol-gas solutions, approved by the director of the state department of toxicology of Indiana University School of Medicine, to simulate an ethanol-breath solution. (2) Such test results shall not deviate more than minus eight percent (-8%) from the known alcohol content of the ethanol-water or ethanol-gas solution, for example, 0.10% w/v solution of ethanol in water shall test within the range of 0.092% to 0.100%. No test result for the purpose of certification shall exceed the known ethanol content of the test solution. (8) For the purpose of inspecting the breath test equipment, the analytical result shall b”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nivens v. State

3. “[the person to be tested must have had nothing to eat or drink, must not have put any foreign substance in his or her mouth or respiratory tract, and must not smoke within twenty (20) minutes prior to the time a breath sample is taken.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haddin v. State