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State v. Rothlisberger’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
4
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Wright (2013), Arbogast Family Trust v. River Crossings, LLC (2010)

36 state decisions

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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 State v. Brown · United States of America v. Christopher Fredrick Vonwillie · United States v. McDonald · State v. Rimmasch · United States of America v. Mercedes Novaton Humberto Rodriguez

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “an average bystander would be able to provide the same [type of] testimony,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “not based on scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “knowledge [that] is not within the ken of the average bystander,”
    3 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.