Marshall v. Martinson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1993
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"From other parts of the opinion it appears that by use of the phrase `varying factors' we meant that there was no ` reliable foundation in fact for expert opinion testimony.' For example, there was no evidence of the angle at which the plaintiff's car allegedly `veered' into defendant's car or the kind of `rotation' the defendant's car would have made. A variation in these two elements would change the expert's opinion. " (p. 1266) (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stringer“"* * * The reason is that under the facts of this case the trial judge could properly find that there were so many varying factors involved in the problem presented by this question that the opinion of an expert witness in answer to that question would indeed have been `speculative,' as observed by the trial judge in this case." (Footnote omitted.) 268 Or. at 56 , 518 P.2d 1312 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stringer“between the center lane line and the center guard rail for defendant to proceed without hitting the center guard rail. We stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stringer
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.