State v. Lafferty

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the argument that an insignificant break (“missing link”) in the chain of custody of certain physical evidence (blood samples in Lafferty) makes the evidence per se inadmissible
• no showing of break in continuity unless use of the mails can be so characterized
• as stated for the Court in the concurring opinion of Wernick, J.
• evidence sent through the mails and received by the correct addressee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Almendarez-Torres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-24· cited 12,622×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• McMillan v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 1,908×
• People v. Patterson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-04-01· cited 442×
• State v. Crocker
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-09-18· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Bianco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-09-27· cited 90×
• State v. Humphries
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1977-07-20· cited 67×
• State v. Lee
  Utah Supreme Court· 1981-06-30· cited 59×
• State v. Lewisohn
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-11-08· cited 47×
• United States v. Felipe Molina-Uribe
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-08-24· cited 42×
• State v. Northup
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-04-05· cited 41×
• State v. Cugliata
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-04-20· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Reilly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 38×
• State v. Lewis
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-05-17· cited 38×
• State v. Thibodeau
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-03-15· cited 37×
• State v. Armstrong
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-09-04· cited 29×
• State v. Myers
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-10-10· cited 29×
• State v. Hafford
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1980-01-22· cited 27×
• State v. Izzo
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1993-04-26· cited 27×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• Garrity v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-23· cited 1,543×
• Gooding v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-23· cited 1,392×
• Ohio v. Hymore
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1967-03-01· cited 556×
• Clewis v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 543×
• Greenwald v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-01· cited 326×
• Fisher v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-10-14· cited 313×
• Indiana Ex Rel. Anderson v. Brand
  Supreme Court· 1938-01-31· cited 273×
• Ward v. Board of Commr's of Love Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1920-04-26· cited 234×
• Bernard Austin v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-06-16· cited 234×
• State v. Collins
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-12-08· cited 176×
• Williams v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1955-06-06· cited 156×
• Douglas v. Buder
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-04· cited 141×
• Enterprise Irrigation District v. Farmers Mutual Canal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1917-03-06· cited 92×
• State v. Richey
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1971-06-07· cited 68×
• Pasadena Research Laboratories, Inc. v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1948-07-16· cited 57×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-05-21· cited 48×