State v. Huggins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding breathalyzer packet admissible under Evidence Rule 803(8)
• absent evidence to the contrary, the trial court should presume that a State official’s signature, under seal, certifying a document or a signature is valid even if the signature is a stamped or printed facsimile
• \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.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-21· cited 200×
• People v. McClanahan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-04-20· cited 118×
• Pears v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-11-25· cited 32×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-07-19· cited 30×
• State v. Irving
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1990-09-04· cited 19×
• State v. Maure
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1990-04-17· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-04-01· cited 13×
• Abyo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2007-08-10· cited 11×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-06-03· cited 9×
• State v. Donald
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-12-08· cited 8×
• State v. Davis.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2017-05-15· cited 3×
• Mariah B. v. State of Alaska, DHSS, OCS
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2021-12-10· cited 3×
• Wassillie v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2018-02-16
• Kenneth Ballard v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2025-08-08

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Palmer v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-01· cited 1,191×
• Kirby v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1899-04-11· cited 343×
• Hoffman v. Palmer
  Second Circuit· 1942-07-31· cited 119×
• Municipality of Anchorage v. Serrano
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-08-06· cited 65×
• Wester v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-12-06· cited 56×
• Cooley v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-08-06· cited 33×
• Keel v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-04-18· cited 22×