Pedersen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably State v. Roberts (2001), Ferrell v. Baxter (1971)
40 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 Crawford v. Rogers · Beck v. State · Bush v. State · West v. State · Jennings 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Also pertinent to the question of an expert’s qualifications is Wigmore’s view that the trial court’s determination in this regard should be unreviewable. We choose not to go this far but hold that the decision in regard to the requisite qualifications of an expert witness is left to the trial court’s discretion and is reviewable only for abuse.” (footnote omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferrell v. Baxter““The party producing a witness . may show that he has made at other times statements inconsistent with his present testimony, as provided in paragraph [c] of this subdivision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beavers v. State
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.