State v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Shadden (2010), State v. Bullcoming (2010)
2 district · 89 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Burks v. United States · Yates v. United States · United States v. Downing · State v. Torres
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion standard of review, however, is not tantamount to rubber-stamping the trial judge's decision. It should not prevent an appellate court from conducting a meaningful analysis of the admission [of] scientific testimony to ensure that the trial judge's decision was in accordance with the Rules of Evidence and the evidence in the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]xperts may, and often do, base their opinions upon factual assumptions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[g]iven that [the expert] did not have the facts necessary to plot Defendant's placement on the [blood alcohol concentration] curve, he could not express a reasonably accurate conclusion regarding the fact in issue: whether Defendant was under the influence of intoxicating liquor at the time of the collision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.