Hicks's Case’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Brown v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · In re Gaydos · Westberry v. Gislaved Gummi AB · Commonwealth v. Lanigan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a preliminary assessment of whether the reasoning or methodology underlying the testimony is scientifically valid and of whether that reasoning or methodology properly can be applied to the facts in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The judge serves as a gatekeeper on the admission of expert opinion testimony.”
1 later decision 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.