Ratliff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 2012
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · State v. Coon · United States v. Allen · Belton v. State
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not rest on arcane scientific principles, or on the results of experiments or tests that could only be understood and interpreted by experts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Starkey v. State“Your Honor, as far as whether the general techniques [of shoe print analysis] are acceptable or not, I will just let the Court rule on that.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierce v. State
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.