48 Va. App. 278 - Billips v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
March 2010
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Chambers v. Mississippi · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in Virginia. When scientific evidence is offered, the court must make a threshold finding of fact with respect to the reliability of the scientific method offered, unless it is of a kind so familiar and accepted as to require no foundation to establish the fundamental reliability of the system, such as fingerprint analysis; or unless it is so unreliable that the considerations requiring its exclusion have ripened into rules of law, such as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Billips v. Com.“an instrument for determining and registering variations in the size of an organ or limb and in the amount of blood present or passing through it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Billips v. Com.“relaxed standard of admissibility [applies] at sentencing hearings”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Billips v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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