State v. Noel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “bullets that come from ' the same box have the same composition of lead and bullets that come from different boxes ... will have different compositions.” Id. at 604. The New Jersey trial court admitted the testimony over the defendant’s objection. Id. On appeal, the appellate division reversed, concluding that evidence was inadmissible absent foundational evidence regarding the statistical probability of two sets of bullets having the same composition. Id. The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the intermediate appellate decision and reinstated the conviction, holding ' the testimony”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Glendale More Jr. v. State of Iowa

2. “the chemical composition of a bullet from one batch may match that of another bullet from the same batch, but not the composition of a bullet from another batch.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 375 N.J. Super. 409 - State v. Behn

3. “expert testimony about matching soil and hair samples has been deemed admissible, with the weight of the evidence left to the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Fortin