Carroll v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.3d 787 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably McCullock v. H.B. Fuller Co. (1995), Moore
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Shipp v. General Motors Corp. · Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores (No. 471) · Munn v. Algee
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under [FED.R.EVID.] 103(a), appellate courts should reverse on the basis of erroneous evidentiary rulings only if a party's substantial rights are affected. Moreover, the party asserting error based on erroneous rulings bears the burden of proving that the error was harmful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The defense expert’s] testimony was based on thirty years of experience as a practicing, board-certified cardiologist, on his review, among other things, of [the plaintiff’s] medical records and the coroner’s records, and on a broad spectrum of published, materials. His testimony was therefore “grounded in the methods and procedures of science” and was not mere “unsupported speculation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawes v. Chua“intemperance might have resulted in a reduced life expectancy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.