I just wanted to make sure, but I'm pretty sure the drinker could make a DC save against a potion they drink in the case they might drink something like Abadar's Truthtelling. For example, as part of an interrogation process. The local guard ask the suspect to drink this potion. Would they get a save of a DC 11, or because they drank it, or because they drank it, they have already "decided" to "allow" the spell and can't make a DC save.
"Potions are like spells cast upon the imbiber. The character taking the potion doesn't get to make any decisions about the effect—the caster who brewed the potion has already done so. The drinker of a potion is both the effective target and the caster of the effect (though the potion indicates the caster level, the drinker still controls the effect)."
Is it possible to force someone to drink a potion during combat? There are rules against "or rather for" an unconscious as a full round action.
Pretty sure this next part would never work outside a GM allowing it but...
If you threw a potion at someone, could it break on them? If it did break on them would they get the effect of the spell? Could you splash it on them. Would there be an AoE Effect? I am saying in a situation, if a fighter was surrounded by bunch of skeletons, if another part member could throw a potion of cure moderate wounds, and heal the fighter for 2d8 +3, while the skeletons took 5 positive energy damage?
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Someone who drinks a potion can immediately choose to make a saving throw against it, if the spell allows one. He can't retroactively decide to do this, though, if it unexpectedly turns out to have a bad effect.
I don't think you could force someone to drink a potion in combat unless they were at least pinned, or preferably helpless. Administering a potion to a helpless individual is a full-round action (so it would have to be someone else than the character maintaining the pin).
If you throw a potion at a creature, the container certainly might break, depending what it's made of. This just spills and wastes the potion and doesn't apply its effect, which targets the drinker of the potion. The same applies to oils, which must be smeared on their targets.
Regardless of the method of delivery, a potion or oil has only one target and does nothing to other creatures who happen to get some on them.