People v. Wesley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson (1996), Connecticut v. Porter (1997)
57 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the accepted techniques, when properly performed, generate results accepted as reliable within the scientific community generally”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Brooks“principle or procedure has 'gained general acceptance' in its specified field”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Brooks“specific reliability of the procedures followed to generate the evidence”
1 later decision 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.