184 N.C. App. 677 - Hoffman v. Oakley’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2025
6 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 Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A. · Smith v. Price · Campbell v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. · 101 N.C. App. 462 - Snead v. Holloman · 59 N.C. App. 280 - Dixon, Odom & Co. v. Sledge
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he restriction on expert testimony set out in Shaw “is limited to opinions regarding speed; it does not apply to opinions concerning other elements of an accident.” Thus, an expert’s testimony is properly admitted when he gives no opinion as to the actual speed of a vehicle. Here, [the witness] never gave an opinion as to the speed that [defendant] was traveling. He used his scientific expertise to perform an experiment that demonstrated stopping distances at various speeds. . . . The trial court, therefore, did not err in admitting [the expert’s] testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The case of Shaw v. Sylvester, 253 N.C. 176 , 116 S.E.2d 351 (1960), . . . stated: “The qualified expert, the nonobserver, may give an opinion in answer to a proper hypothetical question in matters involving science, art, skill and the like .... An automobile, like any other moving object, follows the laws of physics[.]” [The expert witness] properly answered hypothetical questions here and applied the laws of physics to the post-collision movement of the two cars.”
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.