State v. Cavallo’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Kelly (1984), State v. Zola (1988)
3 federal appellate · 120 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Lockett v. Ohio · Washington v. Texas · Frye v. United States · Green v. Georgia
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient scientific basis to produce uniform and reasonably reliable results and will contribute materially to the ascertainment of the truth.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“excessive weight to unreliable expert testimony ... because the evidence is labeled `scientific' and `expert.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he usefulness of expert testimony depends in part on the context in which it is offered.”
2 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.