State v. Blea’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State v. Garcia (1992), State v. Gallegos (2007)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Frye v. United States · State v. Manus · State v. Lankford · State v. Bell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court must merely determine whether the scientific procedure which supports the testimony is `based on a well-recognized scientific principle or discovery and whether it is capable of supporting opinions based upon a reasonable probability rather than conjecture.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alberico“No error occurs when the judge excludes expert testimony where the probative value of that testimony is slight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Branch
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.