Hord v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Vehlewald v. Vehlewald (1993), Bynote v. National Super Markets, Inc. (1995)
33 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 Murphy v. Carron · In Re the Marriage of Powers · In the Interest of C. L. M. · In re C.R.K. v. H.J.K. · Fastnacht v. Fastnacht
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a witness’s qualifications to state an opinion are sufficiently established rests largely in the discretion of the trial court and its ruling thereon will not be disturbed on appeal unless there is a clear showing of abuse.... If the witness has some qualification, the testimony should be permitted. Further, the extent of an expert’s experience or training in a particular field goes to the weight of the testimony and does not render the testimony incompetent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The goal of the exception is to prevent child abuse and to attempt to alleviate the consequent trauma that a child may experience through testifying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re AATN
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.