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← 357 S.C. 447 - Wilson v. Rivers

Wilson v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
June 2016
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In re Kost · Ryan v. Powell · WesBanco Bank Barnesville v. Customer Creditors · State v. Council · Smelser v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

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

  1. “was qualified to render an opinion [as a biomechanical engineer] on the forces created by an impact and on the general effects on the human body caused by such forces and, because [he] is a medical doctor, an opinion regarding the cause of respondent's particular medical problems.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The test for qualification of an expert is a relative one that is dependent on the particular witness's reference to the subject.”
    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.