People v. John’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 7 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “extraction, quantitation or amplification”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Beckham v. Miller · State v. Walker

2. “[T]hese critical analysts who engaged in an independent and qualitative analysis of the data during the DNA typing tests-none of whom was claimed to be unavailable-were effectively insulated from cross-examination. [The testifying analyst], instead, was permitted to parrot the recorded findings that were derived from the critical witnesses' subjective analyses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Walker

3. “the buccal swab was obtained and the resulting profile was compared with the DNA profile generated from the ... burglaries, with the primary (truly, the sole) purpose of proving * a particular fact in a criminal proceeding-that [the] defendant ... committed the crime [with] which he was charged ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Walker