State v. Maelega’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Wallace (1996), Tabieros v. Clark Equipment Co. (1997)
42 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. · Francis v. Franklin · Frye v. United States · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Connecticut v. Johnson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Some evidence' is 'such evidence [that] would support the consideration of that issue by the jury, no matter how weak, inconclusive, or unsatisfactory the evidence may be.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pavao · State v. Mainaaupo“The critical inquiry with respect to expert testimony ... is whether such testimony “will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or determine a fact in issue .... ” HRE 702. Generally, in order to so assist the jury an expert must base his [or her] testimony upon a sound factual foundation; any inference or opinions must be the product of an explicable and relia,ble system of analysis; and such opinions must add to the common understanding of the jury. See HRE Rule 703.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rule 702 Testimony by experts. 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. In determining the issue of assistance to the trier of fact, the court may consider the trustworthiness and validity of the scienti fic technique or mode of analysis employed hy the proffered expert.”
2 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.