State v. Stills’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Rojo (1998), State v. Torres (1999)
56 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 Strickland v. Washington · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Taylor v. Illinois · United States v. Bonds · Lee v. Lee
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 58 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]buse of discretion exists when the trial court acted in an obviously erroneous, arbitrary, or unwarranted manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry“she ... said she was not going to let him 'use her' anymore.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fry v. Lopez
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.