State v. Odom’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Long (1990), State v. Moore (1991)
123 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 Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Russell v. United States · California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra · State v. Kelly · United States v. Young
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s long as the expert does not express his [or her] opinion of defendant's guilt but simply characterizes the defendant's conduct based on the facts in evidence in light of his [or her] specialized knowledge, the opinion is not objectionable even though it embraces ultimate issues that the jury must decide.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be suitably qualified and possessed of sufficient specialized knowledge to be able to express [an expert opinion] and to explain the basis of that opinion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fortin · State v. Summers“[E]xpert opinion is admissible if the general subject matter at issue, or its specific application, is one with which an average juror might not be sufficiently familiar, or if ... the expert testimony would `assist the jury in comprehending the evidence and determining issues of fact.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.