State v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Harris (2004), State v. Torres (2005)
71 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 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Penson v. Ohio · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Kliewer v. New Jersey · Russell v. United States
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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. [Ibid.; see also Biunno, Current N.J. Rules of Evidence, cmt. to N.J.R.E. 702 (“Rule 702 follows F.R. Evid. 702 verbatim.....”).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Noel · State v. Jenewicz“especially where the record includes both an innocent explanation for defendant's conduct as well as an expert witness's incriminating opinion about the same conduct, the trial court should carefully instruct the jury in the context of the evidence about its duty to decide whether to accept or reject the opinion of the expert witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.