Hernandez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Russeau v. State (2005), Roberts v. State (2007)
34 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Frye v. United States · Yagow v. United States · Greening v. Moran · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot now rely on the appellate courts to become independent scientific sleuths to ferret out the appropriate scientific materials which could support the trial court's decision to allow the ADx technician's testimony. * * * [J]udicial notice on appeal cannot serve as the sole source of support for a bare trial court record concerning scientific reliability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a large number of jurisdictions recognize the validity or reliability of a scientific theory or technique”). In his dissent, Judge Price claims that we run afoul of the statement in Hernandez that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Morris 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.