State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Young (1985), State v. Barfield (1979)
79 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 Furman v. Georgia · State v. Vestal · Gallego v. United States · State v. Waddell · State v. McWilliams
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essential question in determining the admissibility of opinion evidence is whether the witness, through study or experience, has acquired such skill that he was better qualified than the jury to form an opinion on the subject matter to which his testimony applies.” The evidence in the present case clearly indicates that [Nurse] Rosenfeld, through both study and experience, was better qualified than the jury to form an opinion on the cause of Fleetwood’s death and on the effect of the sedative medication Versed. Rosenfeld’s position as a nurse was merely a factor to be considered by the jury in evaluating the weight and credibility of her testimony.”
2 later decisions 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.