Brim v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably 199 Ill. 2d 63 - Donaldson v. Central Illinois Public Service Co. (2002), 761 So. 2d 419 - Smith v. State (2000)
84 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. · Frye v. United States · 8 Cal. 4th 587 - People v. Leahy · 37 Cal. 3d 385 - People v. Guerra · 173 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Miller
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 85 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.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ramirez v. State · Hawkins v. State“"In utilizing the Frye test, the burden is on the proponent of the evidence to prove the general acceptance of both the underlying scientific principle and the testing procedures used to apply that principle to the facts at hand.... The general acceptance under the Frye test must be established by a preponderance of the evidence."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brim v. State · Yisrael v. State“[t]his standard requires a determination ... that the basic underlying principles of scientific evidence have been sufficiently tested and accepted by the relevant scientific community.”
9 later decisions 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.