State v. Onken’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “This case must be reversed and appellant granted a new trial for the simple reason that nowhere in Grant’s testimony was he asked about, or did he testify to the critical elements relative to the scientific tests and procedures he performed that were the basis of his conclusion. Grant was never asked about, nor did he ever identify the system, method, procedure (or whatever name his procedures are labelled) that he followed. In addition and more importantly, Grant was never asked nor did he ever testify whether the system, method, procedure, etc., that he followed had been sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Major