236 Md. App. 676 - Sissoko v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2023
13 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Frye v. United States · 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · Reed v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he consensus is that no single finding or combination of findings is pathognomonic for abusive head trauma. Rather, a differential diagnosis must be made based upon the totality of the circumstances in each individual case. A congruence of multiple findings, each of which independently correlates with abusive head trauma, narrows the field of potential diagnoses significantly, however, and absent a clinical history of accidental trauma or evidence of a disease process consistent with those findings, a diagnosis of abusive head trauma may be made. [ Id. at 723 , 182 A.3d 874 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Expert testimony may be admitted, in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if the court determines that the testimony will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue. In making that determination, the court shall determine (1) whether the witness is qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, (2) the appropriateness of the expert testimony on the particular subject, and (3) whether a sufficient factual basis exists to support the expert testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]hat is contemplated are new, and arguably questionable, techniques such as lie detectors tests, breathalyzer tests, paraffin tests, DNA identification, voiceprint identification, as in the Reed case itself, and the use of polarized light microscopy to identify asbestos fibers, as in Keene Corporation v. Hall , 96 Md. App. 644 , 626 A.2d 997 , ... (1993).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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