State v. Bachman’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Alberico (1993), State v. Alberico (1993)
5 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Frye v. United States · United States v. Mazurie · 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe · United States v. Amaral · United States v. Barnard
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In admitting expert testimony, the determining factor is `whether it would assist the jury in understanding matters that normally would not lie within a layman's breadth of knowledge.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moriarty · State v. Lee“evidence and the reasonable inferences drawn therefrom sustain a rational theory of guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is, however, a fundamental difference between rape trauma syndrome and both the battered child syndrome and the other scientific methods of proof that have in the past been evaluated against the Frye [ 293 F. 1013 (D.C.Cir.1923) ] standards of reliability. Unlike fingerprints, blood tests, lie detector tests, voice-prints or the battered child syndrome, (footnote omitted) rape trauma syndrome was not devised to determine the “truth” or “accuracy” of a particular past event — i.e., whether, in fact, a rape in the legal sense occurred — but rather was developed by professional rape counselors as a therapeutic tool, to help identify, predict and treat emotional problems experienced by the counselors clients and patients.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Svihl
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.