68 Conn. App. 313 - State v. Vumback’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably 79 Conn. App. 591 - State v. Ellison (2003), State v. Samuels (2003)
31 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · Frye v. United States · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Paul v. A. Levy & J. Zentner Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obscure scientific theories'; id. , 491; CT Page 11665 that had the potential to mislead jurors awed by an aura of mystic infallibility surrounding scientific techniques, experts and the fancy devices employed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“jury [was] in a position to weigh the probative value of the testimony without abandoning common sense and sacrificing independent judgment to the expert's assertions based on his special skill and knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“concerns a method, `the understanding of which is accessible to the [trier of fact] . . . and the value of the expertise lay in its assistance to the trier of fact in viewing and evaluating the evidence.”
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.