State v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Henderson (2011), 199 Ill. 2d 63 - Donaldson v. Central Illinois Public Service Co. (2002)
2 district · 180 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. · Irvin v. Dowd · Frye v. United States · Delaware v. Fensterer · California v. ARC America Corp.
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f scientific ... 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an appellate court should scrutinize the record and independently review the relevant authorities, including judicial opinions and scientific literature.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“by authoritative scientific and legal writings indicating that the scientific community accepts the premises underlying the proffered testimony.”
4 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.