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← 326 S.C. 503 - State v. Morgan

State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2018

18 state decisions

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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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Frye v. United States · 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · 628 So. 2d 1116 - State v. Foret · State v. Moran

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We have said before, and we will say it again, but this time with emphasis-we really mean it- no psychotherapist may render an opinion on whether a witness is credible in any trial conducted in this state. The assessment of credibility is for the trier of fact and not for psychotherapists.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “South Carolina, however, has never specifically adopted the Frye test and has employed a less restrictive standard in regard to the admissibility of scientific evidence.”
    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.