Johnston v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a showing of the accuracy of an intoxilyzer test is a condition precedent to the test’s admissibility
• finding that officer’s testimony on calibration of breath-test device violates best-evidence rule where no valid certificate of calibration was produced
• proof of calibration of an intoxilyzer machine is foundational to the admission of test results

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

182 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-06-27· cited 301×
• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-22· cited 202×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 193×
• Century 21 Deep South Prop., Ltd. v. Corson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-17· cited 179×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-03-29· cited 168×
• Parker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-31· cited 153×
• Roberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-02-26· cited 125×
• Dycus v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-04-15· cited 121×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 114×
• Hodges v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-10· cited 89×
• McGowan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-11· cited 87×
• Sewell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 76×
• Johnston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-04-22· cited 70×
• Beech v. Leaf River Forest Products, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-03-20· cited 70×
• McIlwain v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-08-07· cited 67×
• Young v. City of Brookhaven
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-15· cited 66×
• Farris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-06-08· cited 65×
• Fisher v. City of Eupora
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-09-18· cited 65×
• Thomas v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-04-30· cited 57×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hentz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-04-19· cited 94×
• Monk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 83×
• Gibson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-09-26· cited 11×