Reed v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 275 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 306 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Downing (1985), 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley (1982)
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 275 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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 Frye v. United States · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · Rivera v. United States · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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 306 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just when a scientific principle or discovery crosses the line between the experimental and demonstrable stages is difficult to define. Somewhere in this twilight zone the evidential force of the principle must be recognized, and while courts will go a long way in admitting expert testimony deduced from a well-recognized scientific principle or discovery, the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"General scientific acceptance is a proper condition for taking judicial notice of scientific facts, but it is not a suitable criterion for the admissibility of scientific evidence. Any relevant conclusions supported by a qualified expert witness should be received unless there are distinct reasons for exclusion. These reasons are the familiar ones of prejudicing or misleading the jury or consuming undue amounts of time." McCormick, Handbook of the Law of Evidence § 203 at 608 (3d. ed. Cleary 1984).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Wheeler · State v. Brown““If scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training or education may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.