609 F. Supp. 784 - United States v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2009
7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on Frye v. United States · 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald · State v. Chapple · United States v. Downing · Japanese Electronic Products Antitrust Litigation v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd
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.
““It is perhaps in establishing the ‘fit’ between the scientific research presented by Dr. Buckhout and the disputed factual issues of this case that defendant’s argument for the admission of expert testimony is weakest.” 609 F.Supp. at 792 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bloodsworth v. State
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.