Karn v. Rand’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Fidelity National Title Insurance Company of New York v. Intercounty National Title Insurance Company (2005), Regional Airport Authority v. LFG, LLC (2006)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Upjohn Company v. United States · Bogosian v. Gulf Oil Corp. · James Julian, Inc. v. Raytheon Co. · Berkey Photo, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obligation of disclosure, litigants should no longer be able to argue that materials furnished to their experts to be used in forming their opinions-whether or not ultimately relied upon by the expert-are privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure when such persons are testifying or being deposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a complete statement of all opinions to be expressed and the basis and reasons therefor [and] the data or other information considered by the witness in forming the opinions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he impact of expert witnesses on modern-day litigation cannot be overstated; yet, to some, they are nothing more than willing musical instruments upon which manipulative counsel can play whatever tune desired. . . . Thus, full, effective cross examination is critical to the integrity of the truth-finding process.”
2 later decisions 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.