Ragan v. Steen’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 320 Pa. Super. 444 - Burch v. Sears, Roebuck and Co. (1983), Radman v. Harold (1977)
114 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.
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient skill, knowledge or experience in that field or calling as to make it appear that his opinion or inference will probably aid the trier in his search for truth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“so distinctively related to some science, profession, business or occupation as to be beyond the ken of the average layman,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“helpful to ask whether a witness has `any reasonable pretension to specialized knowledge.' A `pretension' is `an assertion or declaration whose truth is questioned or falsity suspected; an allegation of doubtful value; a pretext.' Webster's New International Dictionary 1959 (2d ed. 1938).”
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.