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State v. Vennard’s Empirical Analysis

1970

Citation profile

146
cited by 146 later decisions
5
states following
October 2005
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 4 district · 129 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably State v. Piskorski (1979), State v. Brown (1972)

6 federal appellate · 4 district · 129 state decisions

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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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Corallo v. United States · Durham v. United States · Frank v. Maryland · Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc.

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

  1. ““... One of the purposes of the cross-examination of an expert is to test his qualifications and credibility, and the trial court has broad discretion in determining whether a given question satisfies this purpose.... ” See also United States v. Wainright, 10 Cir., 413 F.2d 796, 801 (1969), certiorari denied 396 U.S. 1009 , 90 S.Ct. 566 , 24 L.Ed.2d 501 , affirmed Wainright v. United States, 10 Cir., 448 F.2d 984 ; and 2 Jones on Evidence, § 14:30, p. 668 (6th Ed.).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “As a concomitant of this principle, the question of the similarity of conditions prevailing at the time of the experiment or test to those which prevailed at the time of the occurrence in question is one that lies within the sound discretion of the trial court, to be decided in the light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “we see no reason to permit a defendant to jeopardize that secrecy by recording in writing or otherwise what transpires merely for the purpose of making such an investigation a more effective tool for discovery.”
    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.