Sholler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2015
22 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · United States v. Wade · Gilbert v. California · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We view [the expert’s non-exclusion DNA] testimony as similar to that of an expert who testifies that a defendant’s blood type is the same as that of a blood sample found at a crime scene.... Such does not mean that the crime scene blood was the defendant’s blood, but only that the defendant is not excluded as the source of the crime scene blood.”
1 later decision 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.