12 Va. App. 250 - Hubbard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2019
15 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 Thompson v. Louisiana · Hardcastle v. Pennsylvania · O'Dell v. Commonwealth · Spencer v. Commonwealth · Grasty v. Tanner
Most-quoted passages
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“In Virginia, expert opinions are admissible only if the matter of inquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it, for the reason that the subject matter so far partakes of the nature of a science, art or trade as to require a previous habit of experience or study in it to acquire a knowledge thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“expert's testimony is admissible not only when scientific knowledge is required, but when experience and observation in a special calling give the expert knowledge of a subject beyond ... common intelligence and ordinary experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“expert's ... methods and determinations ..., even by other experts, does not render inadmissible expert opinion based on those ... methods and computations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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