State v. Christian

How courts have described this case

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

• “The confrontation clause places two conditions on the admission of hearsay evidence: necessity and reliability.”
• in criminal cases, a confrontation clause satisfied when witness knowledgeable about the testing procedure and manner in which report was complied is available for cross-examination
• necessity prong may be satisfied by showing unavailability or that the utility of cross-examination is minimal, that other evidence offers an opportunity to test the reliability of the questioned evidence, or that public policy considerations excuse the production of the witness
• “The reliability of business 3 records is usually premised upon routine, trusted patterns of record generation and the 4 confidence engendered by showing that a particular record is created and maintained 5 in conformity with that routine.”
• blood report admitted as a record of regularly conducted activity
• blood-alcohol test admitted pursuant to public records hearsay exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• State v. Martinez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2007-05-18· cited 122×
• State v. Dedman
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2004-11-17· cited 121×
• State v. Aragon
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-02-12· cited 60×
• State v. Brennan
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1998-10-22· cited 28×
• State v. Lopez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1996-07-22· cited 26×
• State v. Delgado
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2009-05-14· cited 8×
• Bransford v. State Taxation & Revenue Department
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1998-04-30· cited 8×
• State v. Guthrie
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2009-01-26· cited 7×
• Baber v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-06-23· cited 5×

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• United States v. Paul v. Oates
  Second Circuit· 1977-06-03· cited 472×
• United States v. Oscar Rosa, Vincent Lopez, Ricardo Rodriguez, Hector Hernandez, and Armando Velasquez
  Second Circuit· 1993-12-03· cited 366×
• United States v. Oscar Ramos Quezada
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-02-20· cited 116×
• United States v. Michael A. Picciandra, United States of America v. A. Russell Lucid, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1986-03-31· cited 92×
• State v. Ramirez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1976-10-19· cited 80×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-09-22· cited 78×
• United States v. Charles W. Blackburn
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-04-22· cited 77×
• State v. Linam
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1979-01-11· cited 63×
• United States v. Christopher D. Wilmer
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-09-05· cited 59×
• United States v. Francisco Hernandez-Rojas
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-04-25· cited 58×
• United States v. Ronald Willet Metzger
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-12-13· cited 58×
• James Reardon v. John R. Manson, Perry Hawkins v. Richard Steinert
  Second Circuit· 1986-11-20· cited 52×
• United States v. William L. Hayes
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-11-23· cited 48×
• Turner v. Pansophic Systems, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-06· cited 34×
• Barreto v. McClellan
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 33×
• State v. Moosman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1990-06-01· cited 32×
• United States v. Kent Dewater, United States of America v. Robert F. McKenney Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-05-04· cited 29×
• State v. Ruiz
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1980-08-26· cited 29×
• State v. Olguin
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1994-06-07· cited 26×