Whitson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that HGN test in use for over 30 years
• finding officer’s testimony of HGN result “relevant as some proof of intoxication,” but implying that HGN test may not be used to quantify BAC
• Frye standard not used, holding that HGN test was not novel because of its use by law enforcement officials for over thirty-five years
• \testimony of the driver’s nystagmus is relevant for the limited purpose of generally indicating the presence of alcohol” and \the HGN test was not used to fix a percentage of blood alcohol content”
• \testimony of the driver's nystagmus is relevant for the limited purpose of generally indicating the presence of alcohol\ and \the HGN test was not used to fix a percentage of blood alcohol content\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Torres
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-02-15· cited 266×
• People v. Leahy
  California Supreme Court· 1994-10-27· cited 195×
• State v. Baue
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2000-03-10· cited 124×
• People v. McKown
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2007-09-20· cited 95×
• State v. Murphy
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-10-13· cited 80×
• State v. Baity
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-02-03· cited 75×
• Young v. City of Brookhaven
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-05-15· cited 66×
• City of Fargo v. McLaughlin
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-02-23· cited 60×
• Ayers v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-09-17· cited 59×
• United States v. Horn
  D. Maryland· 2002-01-31· cited 53×
• State v. Merritt
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1994-07-29· cited 52×
• Schultz v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-08-31· cited 50×
• State v. Ito
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1999-05-24· cited 46×
• State v. Rose
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2002-07-30· cited 43×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-18· cited 39×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-04-03· cited 38×
• State v. Ruthardt
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1996-03-21· cited 35×
• Massengale v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-03-13· cited 28×
• State v. Helms
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1998-08-05· cited 22×
• People v. Berger
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1996-07-29· cited 19×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• State v. Superior Court
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 185×
• Prater v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-11-11· cited 67×
• State v. Clark
  Montana Supreme Court· 1988-10-07· cited 59×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-02-01· cited 49×
• Parette v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-03-26· cited 38×
• Withers v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-03-02· cited 23×
• Gustafson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1980-01-23· cited 20×
• People v. Loomis
  Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California· 1984-03-29· cited 18×
• Sutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-01-11· cited 17×
• Horn v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1984-03-19· cited 16×
• Orr v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-02-03· cited 14×
• Leshe v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-02-04· cited 14×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1983-03-09· cited 14×
• Segerstrom v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-02-12· cited 14×
• White v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-11-13· cited 10×
• Middleton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1989-10-11· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1992-04-01· cited 6×