Franco v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 358th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Murzyn v. United States · Harris v. State · EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson · Mosley 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In dicta, the court mused: We can envision circumstances where the trier of fact may be quite properly aided by some evidence of blood splatter analysis, but we are dubious of the claim in this record that blood spatter evidence can `determine the aftermath of a violent incident of bloodshed and to try to determine the location of individuals before, during and after bloodshed and to try to determine, perhaps, a sequence of events that occurred based upon the bloodstain evidence available at the scene.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Holmes v. State
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.