Lester v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \Impaired driving ability is not a 'fact necessary to constitute the crime'.... The elements of the crime ... are irrelevant to the ability of any individual to drive without impairment while having a blood-alcohol count of .12% or higher.\
• \Impaired driving ability is not a 'fact necessary to constitute the crime’.... The elements of the crime ... are irrelevant to the ability of any individual to drive without impairment while having a blood-alcohol count of .12% or higher.\
• evidence that the police officer was in uniform, that his siren and blue lights were activated, and that the police car was appropriately marked was sufficient, even though no evidence was submitted that a police badge was prominently displayed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Forte v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-09· cited 161×
• Lattarulo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-28· cited 79×
• Hogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-03-20· cited 49×
• Peters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-06-20· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Duda
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-31· cited 44×
• Cunningham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-09-26· cited 39×
• Philip Landry v. Judge J. Robert Hoepfner and William Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-03-17· cited 36×
• Bohannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 31×
• Ellerbee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-10-20· cited 28×
• Kevinezz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-27· cited 27×
• Turrentine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-09-24· cited 25×
• Simon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-03-18· cited 23×
• Kuptz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-05-21· cited 20×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-04· cited 16×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-14· cited 15×
• State v. Kachwalla
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 14×
• State v. Speir
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-14· cited 13×
• Mooney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-14· cited 13×
• Sisson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-06-09· cited 13×
• Melton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-07-12· cited 12×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Nash v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1913-06-09· cited 749×
• Rose v. Locke
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-17· cited 516×
• Burg v. Municipal Court
  California Supreme Court· 1983-12-22· cited 193×
• Perano v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 79×
• Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Raines
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1930-09-13· cited 24×
• Caby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-17· cited 17×