State v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1993 · most notably State v. Valdez (1962), State v. Alberico (1993)
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Frye v. United States · Marks v. United States · State v. Lindemuth · Lefevre v. State · People v. Forte
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just when a scientific principle or discovery crosses the line between the experimental and demonstrable stages is difficult to define. Somewhere in this twilight zone the evidential force of the principle must be recognized, and while courts will go a long way in admitting expert testimony deduced from a well-recognized scientific principle or discovery, the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think the court was led into error. The signing of a waiver did not alter the rule with regard to Hathaway’s evidence.” Citing Colbert v. Commonwealth, supra, and LeFevre v. State (1943), 242 Wis. 416 , 8 N.W.2d 288 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Presently, the question [on admission of a polygraph test] requires a negative answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alderete
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.