State v. Orsini’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Spigarolo (1989), State v. Brown (1972)
4 district · 63 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 Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Giordenello v. United States · Beck v. Washington · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · O’connor v. Ohio
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state of pregnancy is such a common condition that a woman may give her opinion that she herself is pregnant”); City of Goshen v. England, 119 Ind. 368 , 21 N.E. 977 (1889) (broken foot); Inter-Southern Life Insurance Co. v. Stephenson, 246 Ky. 694 , 56 S.W.2d 332, 335 (1933) (laypersons”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although it is true that expert medical testimony is generally required in proving the condition from which a person claims to be suffering, this is not the case in obvious or simple matters of everyday life, especially where one is testifying about his own physical condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because of the wide range of matters on which lay witnesses are permitted to give their opinion, the admissibility of such evidence rests in the sound discretion of the trial court, and the exercise of that discretion, unless abused, will not constitute reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.