Naney v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1974
most recently cited
6 state decisions
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The correct rule is that an expert's fitness to answer opinion questions must first satisfy the discretion of the trial judge. The expert then may express an opinion on an ultimate fact if the ultimate fact cannot be equally well decided by the jury from the same evidence upon which the expert has based his opinion. [Citations omitted]. The decision whether to receive the testimony should be left to the sound discretion of the trial judge * * *." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a licensed architect to testify concerning both the conditions he personally observed and his opinion regarding the safety of the design or installation * * * [and] that it was proper to permit an architect to testify under certain circumstances regarding the safety of certain structural designs or installations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could catch something, on the shoes of anyone going down the steps”
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.