Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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

1. “[e]xpert testimony is required 'only when the subject of the inference ... is so particularly related to some science or profession that is beyond the ken of the average layman[; it] is not required on matters of which the jurors would be aware by virtue of common knowledge.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 Md. App. 94 - Steamfitters Local Union No. 602 v. Erie Ins. Exch.

2. “tracking reports from GPS devices concealed in currency stolen from banks, data reports from GPS monitoring devices worn by probationers, and data on a GPS device seized from drug smuggling boat,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Brown

3. “[c]ourts in other jurisdictions have admitted evidence derived from GPS tracking devices over objections to the lack of technical expertise of the sponsoring witness,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Brown