Drope v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2003
14 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 Johnson v. State · Parker v. State · Woodward v. Blythe · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. Jackson · Russell v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been said that under Uniform [now Arkansas] Evidence Rule 702 the question is whether specialized knowledge will assist the jury to understand the evidence or determine a fact issue. B &J Byers Trucking, Inc. v. Robinson, supra. Whether or not a particular case should be governed by the general rule or should be treated as an exception thereto, is a matter within the trial judge’s discretion to be upheld on appeal absent an abuse of that discretion. Price v. Watkins, supra; B &J Byers Trucking, Inc. v. Robinson, supra; and Parker v. State, 268 Ark. 441 , 597 S.W.2d 586 (1980).”
1 later decision 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.