State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably State v. John (1989), State v. McKnight (1983)
63 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 Delli Paoli v. United States · State v. Piskorski · State v. Manning · Rome v. Archer · State v. Jeustiniano
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a witness is qualified to testify as an expert is a matter largely within the trial court's discretion. Oborski v. New Haven Gas Co., 151 Conn. 274 , *Page 438 280, 197 A.2d 73 (1964). While it is true that preliminary facts must be shown to lay a foundation for the witness' qualifications, there is no precise rule as to what those facts must be. Oborski v. New Haven Gas Co., supra. Expertise may come from practical experience or study alone. Bryan v. Branford, 50 Conn. 246 , 248 (1882). In any event, if reasonable qualifications are established, objections go only to the weight to be given to the witness' opinion rather than to its admissibility. Oborski v. New Haven Gas Co., supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Russo
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.