State v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. “[A] lay witness is not competent to provide reliable testimony about medical matters beyond the common knowledge of laypersons, or those [matters] that are not readily apparent such as medical diagnoses or the effects of a possible medical condition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Edmonds

2. “lay witnesses are not competent to provide reliable testimony about medical matters . . . that are not readily apparent such as medical diagnosis or the effects of possible medical conditions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 59 Kan. App. 2d 418 - State v. Brown

3. “a lay witness may testify about the external appearances and manifest medical conditions that are readily apparent to anyone,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 59 Kan. App. 2d 418 - State v. Brown