49 Cal. 3d 1136 - People v. Stoll’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 217 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 239 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 51 Cal. 3d 294 - People v. Jones (1990), 22 Cal. 4th 900 - People v. Jenkins (2000)
9 federal appellate · 217 state decisions — followed in 17 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Frye v. United States · 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald · 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe
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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent some special feature which effectively blindsides the jury, expert opinion testimony is not subject to Kelly/Frye.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have never applied the Kelly-Frye rule to expert medical testimony, even when the witness is a psychiatrist and the subject matter is as esoteric as the reconstitution of a past state of mind or the prediction of future dangerousness, or even the diagnosis of an unusual form of mental illness[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the form of an opinion or evidence of his reputation ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.