Davidson v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2025
17 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 National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt · Washington v. United States · Specht v. Jensen · Turner v. General Motors Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Rules 701 and 702 require, respectively, that the opinions of lay and expert witnesses assist the trier of fact. And Rule 403 provides for the exclusion of evidence which wastes time. Thus, if a witness's opinion will do little more than tell the jury what result to reach, it will be inadmissible."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[Tlesti-mony in the form of an opinion or inference otherwise admissible is not objectionable because it embraces an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Opinion testimony is not helpful to the factfinder if it is couched as a legal conclusion .... Because the judge and not a witness is to instruct the factfinder on the applicable principles of law, exelusion of opinion testimony is appropriate if the terms used have a separate, distinct, and special legal meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.