State v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably State v. Lumley (1999), State v. Marks (1982)
59 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 Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · White v. Morgan · United States v. Amaral
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"( b ) If the witness is testifying as an expert, testimony of the witness in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to such opinions as the judge finds are (1) based on facts or data perceived by or personally known or made known to the witness at the hearing and (2) within the scope of the special knowledge, skill, experience or training possessed by the witness."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Expert testimony is admissible only where, by reason of peculiar skill and experience, inferences which an ordinary untrained mind cannot deduce can be drawn from facts, or where such testimony relates to a subject which is not within the average experience and common understanding of the jury. Since expert testimony constitutes an exception to the general rules of evidence — an exception founded upon necessity — the admission of such testimony should be limited within the bounds of necessity. “Expert opinion testimony, while not limited or restricted in its scope to matters of science, art, or skill, cannot invade the field of common knowledge .... If the subject is one of common knowledge, as to which the facts can be intelligibly described to the jury and understood by them and they can form a reasonable opinion for themselves, the opinion of an expert will be rejected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garcia““Opinion testimony is not without limitations and although an expert witness may be permitted to give an opinion bearing on the ultimate issue he may do so only insofar as the opinion will aid the jury in the interpretation of technical facts or when it will assist the jury in understanding the material in evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garcia
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.