State v. Castore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The jury will benefit from expert testimony ‘when the subject matter of the inquiry is one involving special skills and training beyond the ken of the average layman. If all the facts and circumstances can be accurately described to a jury and if the jury is as capable of comprehending and understanding such facts and drawing correct conclusions from them as is the expert, there is no necessity for the expert testimony.’ ” State v. Castore, 435 A.2d 321, 326 (R.I.1981) (quoting Barenbaum v. Richardson, 114 R.I. 87, 90-91 , 328 A.2d 731, 733 (1974)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bateman Ex Rel. Rodrigues v. Mello

2. ““but solely on what she had related to him about what went on within the walls of the Castore home. Because his opinion was based on evidence that was not within the realm of his medical capabilities or expertise, and in fact was based on testimony that had already been presented to the jury, it amounted to nothing more than his assessment of the credibility of [the victim’s] testimony. It is beyond dispute that a determination of the credibility of a witness is solely within the purview of the jury.” Id. at 326 .”

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