120 Wash. 2d 879 - State v. Cauthron’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Bible (1993), EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson (1996)
2 district · 192 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Frye v. United States · Pauley v. Beth-Energy Mines, Inc. · United States v. Downing · Fleet Factors Corp. v. United States · State v. Hoffman
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]vidence deriving from a scientific theory or principle is admissible only if that theory or principle has achieved general acceptance in the relevant scientific community.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[T]he thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.