Mata v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Eighth Judicial District Court ex rel. County of Clark (2011), Bigon v. State (2008)
77 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Kelly v. State · Emerson v. State · Jackson v. State · Jordan 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the length of time between the offense and the test(s) administered; (b) the number of tests given and the length of time between each test; and (c) whether, and if so, to what extent, any individual characteristics of the defendant were known to the expert in providing his extrapolation.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Corley v. State · Bhakta v. State“As alcohol is consumed, it passes from the stomach and intestines into the blood, a process referred to as absorption. When the alcohol reaches the brain and nervous system, the chárac-teristic signs of intoxication begin to show. * * At some point after drinking has ceased, the person’s BAC'will reach a peak. After the peak, the BAC will begin to fall as alcohol is eliminated from the person’s body. The body eliminates alcohol through the liver at a slow but consistent rate. ; ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ [I]f a driver is tested while in the absorption phase, his BAC at the time of the- test 'will be higher than his BAC while driving. If tested while in the elimination phase, his BAC at the tíme of the test could be lower’than while driving, depending upon whether he had íeached his péak before or after he was stopped.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the extent to which the underlying scientific theory and technique are accepted as valid by the relevant scientific community, if such a community can be ascertained; (2) the qualifications of the expert(s) testifying; (3) the existence of literature supporting or rejecting the underlying scientific theory and technique; (4) the potential rate of error of the technique; (5) the availability of other experts to test and evaluate the technique; (6) the clarity with which the underlying scientific theory and technique can be explained to the court; and (7) the experience and skill of the persons) who applied the technique on the occasion in question.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.