Weatherred v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
161
cited by 161 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
160 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona · McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co. · United States v. Downing · Kelly v. State · Prystash v. State
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 161 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] diplómate is a status that is bestowed on you by your peers, or the field that you're in, for ... contributions to the field, and it's basically a recognition that you've gone beyond the ordinary work, in order to contribute to the science or to the field or the community that you’re serving.” 2 . The Court of Criminal Appeals has explained that "hard” sciences are those "areas in which precise measurement, calculation, and prediction are generally possible, in-cludpng] mathematics, physical science, earth science, and life science,” while "soft” sci-enees “are generally thought to include such fields as psychology, economics, political science, anthropology, and sociology.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he appropriate questions are: (1) whether the field of expertise is a legitimate one, (2) whether the subject matter of the expert's testimony is within the scope of that field, and (3) whether the expert's testimony properly relies upon and/or utilizes the principles involved in the field.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. State · Rhomer v. State
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