Noll v. Rahal’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Coe v. Commonwealth (1986), Fitzgerald v. Manning (1982)
5 federal appellate · 87 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 Bly v. Rhoads · Whitfield v. Whittaker Memorial Hospital · Bain v. Boykin · Norfolk and Western Railway Company v. Anderson · Fletcher v. Tarasidis
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a] decision to exclude a proffered expert opinion will be reversed on appeal only when it appears clearly that the witness was qualified. . .. And the expressed belief of a witness that he is an expert does not ipso facto require his qualification. . . . The facts must show that he possesses sufficient knowledge, skill or experience to make him competent to testify as an expert on the subject matter of the inquiry.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question whether a witness is qualified to testify as an expert is `largely within the sound discretion of the trial court.' In the context of a medical malpractice action, this determination must be made with reference to Code § 8.01-581.20.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lloyd v. Kime · Holt v. Chalmeta“some members of this [C]ourt, had they presided at the trial, may have admitted”
2 later decisions 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.