Carroll v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 210 · 1990
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. Hall (1999), Gacy v. Welborn (1993)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Larsen v. General Motors Corp. · Mid-State Fertilizer Co. v. Exchange National Bank of Chicago · New England Coal & Coke Co. v. Northern Barge Corporation · Liquid Air Corp. v. Rogers · Richardson ex rel. Richardson v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a witness is qualified as an expert can only be determined by comparing the area in which the witness has superior knowledge, skill, experience, or education with the subject matter of the witness's testimony.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“are committed to the discretion of the trial judge and its determination will be affirmed unless it is manifestly erroneous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
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.