State v. Hartman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 406 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 415 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Trimble (2009), State v. Drummond (2006)
3 federal appellate · 406 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley
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 415 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The individual offered as an expert need not have complete knowledge of the field in question, as long as the knowledge he or she possesses will aid the trier of fact in performing its fact-finding function.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“specialized knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education regarding the subject matter of the testimony.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the failure to call an expert and instead rely on cross-examination does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
5 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.