Tanner v. Westbrook’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.3d 542 · 1999
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Alberto Valdez v. Janie Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division - (2001), Mathis v. Exxon Corp. (2002)
19 federal appellate · 8 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. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · United States v. Nichols · Watkins v. Telsmith, Inc. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Manville Sales Corp.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he proponent need not prove to the judge that the expert's testimony is correct, but she must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the testimony is reliable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he test of reliability is flexible and bends according to the particular circumstances of the testimony at issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the same kind of latitude in deciding how to test an expert's reliability, and to decide whether or when special briefing or other proceedings are needed to investigate reliability, as it enjoys when it decides whether or not that expert's relevant testimony is reliable.”
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.