Doe v. McFarlane’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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

1. “The facts or data in a particular case upon which an expert bases an opinion or inference may be those perceived by or made known to him at or before the hearing and must be of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject and must be otherwise reasonably reliable.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. St. Charles County v. Olendorff · Lauck v. Price

2. “Counsel shall make specific objections to instructions considered erroneous. No party may assign as error the giving or failure to give instructions unless that party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection. Counsel need not repeat objections already made on the record prior to delivery of the instructions. The objections must also be raised in the motion for new trial in accordance with Rule 78.07.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Sparkman v. Columbia Mutual Insurance Co. · Berra v. Danter

3. “Only in cases where the sources relied on by the expert are 'so slight as to be fundamentally unsupported,' should the opinion be excluded because testimony with that little weight would not assist the jury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Care & Treatment of Martin Reddig v. State · Mansil v. Midwest Emergency Med. Servs., P.C.