Sparkman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2019
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Jamison v. State · Hargrove v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 1 - Webster v. State · Gulley v. State · Morrison 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, it is settled beyond question that the weight and value of expert testimony is for the jury and must be received with caution. Mullendore v. State, 183 Tenn. 53 , 191 S.W.2d 149 . This applies to the expert opinions of medical men. Crane Enamel Co. v. Jamison, 188 Tenn. 211 , 217 S.W.2d 945 . Where there is any conflict between expert testimony and the testimony as to the facts, the jury is not bound to accept expert testimony in preference to other testimony, and must determine the weight and credibility of each in the light of all the facts shown in the ease. Act-O-Lane Gas Service Co. v. Clinton, 35 Tenn.App. 442 , 245 S.W.2d 795 ; East Tennessee Natural Gas Co. v. Peltz, 38 Tenn.App. 100 , 270 S.W.2d 591 . Expert medical opinion regarding the functioning of the human body must always be more or less speculative. Patterson Transfer Co. v. Lewis, 195 Tenn. 474 , 260 S.W.2d 182 ; Great American Indemnity Company v. Friddell, 198 Tenn. 360 , 280 S.W.2d 908 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson
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.