State v. Dewey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 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.
Relationships
Relies on Cupp v. Murphy · State v. Oevering · Carmody v. Aho · Dunshee v. Douglas · Murphy v. Hennen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The approach of the Carmody case has been followed by this court in numerous cases since then: * * * (citations omitted). A parallel line of cases, dealing with expert testimony concerning only the speed of automobiles involved in accidents, has taken a slightly different approach, holding that although opinion testimony of lay eyewitnesses is preferred, a qualified expert may give his opinion on speed, based on skid marks, if lay testimony is nonexistent or of little aid to the jury. See, e.g., LeMieux v. Bishop, 296 Minn. 372 , 209 N.W.2d 379 (1973); Grapentin v. Harvey, 262 Minn. 222 , 114 N.W.2d 578 (1962). Recently, in Dunshee v. Douglas, 255 N.W.2d 42 (Minn.1977), we at least implied that the same basic rule should govern all kinds of expert accident reconstruction testimony, and that that rule is the one which has been followed with respect to expert testimony concerning speed. The trend of the cases in other jurisdictions is to leave the matter to the trial court’s discretion, allowing the trial court to admit the accident reconstruction testimony if there is a need for the evidence and if the expert is qualified. Most importantly, this is also the approach contemplated by our recently adopted Rules of Evidence. See, Rules 702-704 and 3 Weinstein’s Evidence, United States Rules, § 702(01).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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