State v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Williams Ford, Inc. v. Hartford Courant Co. (1995), State v. Piskorski (1979)
62 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Dionisio · Cardwell v. Lewis
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is permissible to admit into evidence the opinions of common observers in regard to common appearances, facts and conditions ... in a great variety of cases.... When the question involved can be answered by the application of ordinary knowledge and experience, expert testimony is not required ... although [t]o render opinions of common witnesses admissible it is indispensable that the opinions be founded on their own personal observation, and not [on] the testimony of others, or on any hypothetical * statement of facts, as is permitted in the case of experts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holley“[c]onsidering the substance identified, its location, and the normal human experience of the witness ... the trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that under the circumstances the [lay] witness was competent to give testimony characterizing as blood the stain she observed on the window of the defendant's car”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holley“One fact is relevant to another fact whenever, according to the common course of events, the existence of the one, taken alone or in connection with other facts, renders the existence of the other certain or more probable.”
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.