Randolph v. Collectramatic, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 844 · 1979
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably 163 Ill. 2d 93 - People v. Novak (1994), Phillips v. Calhoun (1992)
38 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kirkland v. General Motors Corporation · Farner v. Paccar, Inc. · Barnes v. Smith · United States v. Brown
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Federal Rule of Evidence] 701 does not permit a lay witness to express an opinion as to matters which are beyond the realm of common experience and which require the special skill and knowledge of an expert witness.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (1) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (2) helpful to a clear understanding of his testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The primary purpose of Rule 701 is to allow nonexpert witnesses to give opinion testimony when, as a matter of practical necessity, events which they have personally observed cannot otherwise be fully presented to the court or the jury.”
2 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.