Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2018
4 district · 4 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In attempting to delineate the inquiry required by Rule 702, the Supreme Court set forth a non-exclusive list of factors to consider in making the first determination of whether proffered testimony was sufficiently reliable to constitute scientific knowledge: (1) whether the theory or technique has been or could be tested; (2) whether the technique has been subject to peer review and publication; (3) the known or potential rate of error; and (4) the “general acceptance” of the technique by the relevant scientific community. Ruffin v. Shaw Indus., Inc., 149 F.3d 294, 296 (4th Cir.1998) (citing Daubert, 509 U.S. at 595 , 113 S.Ct. 2786 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the testimony defendants seek to strike is essential for plaintiffs to withstand defendants' summary judgment motion, the court will address [these] motion[s] first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Acosta v. Vinoskey
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.