State v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Under the first prong, the court asks whether experts in the field widely share the view that the results of scientific testing are scientifically reliable. Under the second prong of the Frye-Mack test, the court considers whether the laboratory conducting the tests in the individual case complied with appropriate standards and controls....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doe v. Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis

2. “never squarely held that either fingerprint analysis or handwriting analysis is generally accepted in the scientific community.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harvey

3. “any error in the admission of either type of forensic evidence was harmless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harvey