Nelson v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.’s Empirical Analysis
243 F.3d 244 · 2001
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Niam v. Ashcroft (2004), United States v. Beverly (2004)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Weisgram v. Marley Co.
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires that the evidence or testimony 'assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence,' " expert testimony "which does not relate to any issue in the case is not relevant and ergo, nonhelpful.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) whether the theory or technique can be or has been tested; (b) whether the theory has been subjected to peer review and publication; (c) the known or potential rate of error; and (d) general acceptance within the relevant scientific community.”
3 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.