State v. Rimmasch’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 628 So. 2d 1116 - State v. Foret (1993), State v. Menzies (1994)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 127 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Frye v. United States · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · David W. McKay v. Texas · 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“permits testimony concerning a witness's general character or reputation for truthfulness or untruthfulness but prohibits any testimony as to a witness's truthfulness on a particular occasion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Opinion and Reputation Evidence of Character. The credibility of a witness may he attacked or supported by evidence in the form of opinion or reputation, but subject to these limitations: (1) the evidence may refer only to character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, and (2) evidence of truthful character is admissible only after the character of the witness for truthfulness has been attacked by opinion or reputation evidence or otherwise.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.