Jones v. Grant’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. “1. In any civil action, if scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise. [[Image here]] 3. The facts or data in a particular case upon which an expert bases an opinion or inference may be those perceived by or made known to him at or before the hearing and must be of a type reason ably relied upon by experts in the field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject and must be otherwise reasonably reliable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scott v. Blue Springs Ford Sales, Inc. · In re the Marriage of Patrick

2. “When expert testimony is excluded . . . our 'focus is not on whether the evidence was admissible but on whether the trial court abused its discretion in excluding the evidence.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. IN THE MATTER OF THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF CLAUDE HASTY, a/k/a CLAUDE J. HASTY, a/k/a CLAUDE JOHN HASTY

3. “In addition, all fact issues upon which no specific findings are made shall be considered as having been found in accordance with the result reached.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kritzer v. Curators of the University of Missouri