548 So. 2d 188 - Stokes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Grady v. Frito-Lay, Inc. (2003), 690 So. 2d 573 - Hadden v. State (1997)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 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 Rock v. Arkansas · Frye v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Baskett v. United States · Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. v. Blankenship
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The underlying theory for this rule is that a courtroom is not a laboratory, and as such it is not the place to conduct scientific experiments. If the scientific community considers a procedure or process unreliable for its own purposes, then the procedure must be considered less reliable for courtroom use.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ramirez v. State · State v. Sercey“sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ramirez v. State · State v. Sercey“that the testimony of a witness who has undergone hypnosis for the purpose of refreshing his or her memory of the events at issue is inadmissible as to all additional facts relating to those events from the time of the hypnotic session forward. A witness who has been hypnotized may testify to statements made before the hypnotic session, if they are properly recorded.”
2 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.