State v. Swanson

How courts have described this case

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

• “[o]ne accused of a crime involving intoxication has a right to obtain an independent blood test to establish his sobriety regardless of whether he submits to a police designated test”
• “the police ha[ve] a duty to see to [the] safekeeping [of potentially exculpatory evidence]”
• wherein the Supreme Court of Montana stated that while the police have no duty to assist an accused in obtaining an independent test of sobriety, they cannot frustrate such an effort through either affirmative acts or their rules or regulations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Anstey
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2006-07-31· cited 177×
• State v. Gunderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 2010-07-27· cited 111×
• State v. Weaver
  Montana Supreme Court· 1998-07-01· cited 104×
• State v. Clark
  Montana Supreme Court· 1988-10-07· cited 59×
• State v. Sadowski
  Montana Supreme Court· 1991-01-28· cited 58×
• State v. Giddings
  Montana Supreme Court· 2009-03-03· cited 41×
• State v. Pastos
  Montana Supreme Court· 1994-12-20· cited 40×
• Snyder v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1996-12-27· cited 40×
• State v. Larivee
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2003-01-30· cited 39×
• State v. Patton
  Montana Supreme Court· 1996-12-17· cited 31×
• State v. Minkoff
  Montana Supreme Court· 2002-02-25· cited 27×
• Peschel v. City of Missoula
  D. Montana· 2009-10-15· cited 27×
• State v. Strand
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-12-16· cited 26×
• State v. Carr
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1995-12-21· cited 25×
• State, City of Bozeman v. Heth
  Montana Supreme Court· 1988-02-09· cited 22×
• State, City of Bozeman v. Peterson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1987-07-20· cited 22×
• State v. Sidmore
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 21×
• State v. Belgarde
  Montana Supreme Court· 1998-06-16· cited 18×
• State v. Beanblossom
  Montana Supreme Court· 2002-12-30· cited 17×
• State v. Wagner
  Montana Supreme Court· 2013-02-27· cited 15×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Lafayette
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-20· cited 1,216×
• McNutt v. Superior Court of State of Ariz.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-07-09· cited 79×
• Kesler v. Department of Motor Vehicles
  California Supreme Court· 1969-10-31· cited 67×
• In Re Martin
  California Supreme Court· 1962-10-04· cited 64×
• Smith v. Cada
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1977-02-15· cited 59×
• State v. Snipes
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1972-02-22· cited 26×
• State v. Choate
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-12-07· cited 23×