Reed v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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

1. ““The settled rule is that while a duly qualified expert witness may give his opinion based upon sufficient relevant facts, such facts must be within his personal knowledge, or assumed from common or judicial knowledge, or established by evidence; his opinion is without value, and is inadmissible, if based upon facts and circumstances gleaned by him from ex parte statements of third persons, and not established by legal evidence before a jury trying the ultimate issues to which the opinion relates. 20 Am.Jur. p. 661, § 787; 19 Tex.Jur. p. 444, § 290; McCormick & Ray, § 632; Annotations in 98 A.L.R. 1109 ; Kerr v. Dorchester, Tex.Civ.App., 93 S.W.2d 758 ; Fidelity Union Casualty Co. v. Dapperman, Tex.Civ.App., 47 S.W.2d 408 ; Spence v. National Life & Accident Ins. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 59 S.W.2d 212 ; Anderson v. Caulk, Tex.Civ.App., 5 S.W.2d 816 , affirmed 120 Tex. 253 , 37 S.W.2d 1008 .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Continental Bus System, Inc. v. Biggers · Moore v. Grantham

2. ““when that information is placed in evidence from original or duly authenticated sources, an expert geologist, such as the witness Jennings, may give his opinion, in reply to hypothetical questions based upon such evidence, as to whether oil may be developed by offset wells in given areas.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moore v. Grantham