Fordham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Hicks v. State (1987), Maxwell v. State (1992)
40 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Blalock v. Blalock · Smith v. State · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Saul · Lamb 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, [the] []]urors are the ultimate finders of fact, and where it is possible for them to take the same elements and constituent factors which guide the expert to his conclusions and from them alone make an equally intelligent judgment of their own, independently of the opinion of others, then undoubtedly this should be done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the nature of the question is such that the factors leading to a conclusion are not known to the common or average [person], but are among those things shrouded in the mystery of professional skill or knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, a witness may not express his opinion as to an ultimate fact, because to do so would invade the province of the jury.”
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.