State v. Streich’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Connecticut v. Porter (1997), State v. Harvey (1997)
1 district · 102 state decisions — followed in 14 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. · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Frye v. United States · State v. Bible · United States v. Bonds
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plain error will be found only in rare and extraordinary cases where the error is obvious and strikes at the heart of defendant's constitutional rights or results in a miscarriage of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We are also influenced by a practical consideration. The debate is not about whether to allow introduction of probability statistics. We agree with the courts that have held that evidence about the fact of one or more allele matches is not helpful without some evidence about the probability of a match in the population as a whole. The debate instead is about how conservative the probability statistic will be. Although use of the ceiling principle will increase the likelihood of a random match, the difference is unlikely to have any real effect on jury deliberations. We strongly doubt whether it will make much difference to a jury whether the probability of random selection of a person with the same alleles is 1 in 100,000 or 1 in 1,000,000.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tester“First, if a given bin contains fewer than five individuals, that bin is “collapsed” into an adjoining bin. As a result, the percentage of the population with an allele within this predetermined bin will be higher than it would be otherwise, and the ultimate statistical probability calculation will be more conservative. Second, if a suspect’s allele length for a particular probe falls in between two bins, it will be assigned to the bin with the greater frequency figure, ostensibly generating a conservative statistical probability. This conservatism is said to make up for any inaccuracies due to the presence of population substructures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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