Daubert-issue cases number in the thousands. Do you want to check whether an expert has been qualified — or disqualified — by a court under Daubert (or under Kumho Tire or Joiner?) Or do you want to see how the issue has been applied in both federal and state courts to a particular type of expertise?
If you do, then here's the site for you: Daubert Tracker at www.dauberttracker.com. The site notes that its features include:
Tracking of all federal and state cases involving evidentiary gatekeeping standards, including all cases citing Daubert, Kumho Tire and Joiner;
Reporting of all numerous unreported cases; and
Other information from over 14,000 case records and 16,000 expert records
You can search Tracker by a variety of criteria, including (1) by the name of the expert, (2) by the field of expertise, and (3) by the court discussing the issue.
You can also purchase many case documents and transcripts.
For even more information, you may want to read an article by Robert Ambrogi, a former editorial director of the National Law Journal and former director of American Lawyer Media News Service. (The article on the Daubert site was previously published in the National Law Journal. You can go to Ambrogi's own site to see some of his other articles.)
If you want still more information, Tracker also has an eleven-minute sound demo.
If you're not a heavy user, you can search the entire Daubert database for one-half hour for $10 and for two hours for $25. If you're a heavy user, a one-year subscription costs $495.
Tracker will not include information on a particular expert — even if the expert was named in the opinion —when the case did not involve an expert-related issue of admissibility. BUT you can go on Lexisone.com (www.lexisone.com), Lexis's free (FREE!!!) site, and search the last five years of federal and state appellate cases to see if your opponent's expert (or even your own expert) has been named. (There is a charge if you want to Shepardize a case or see Lexis-added summaries, etc., but the regular searching is FREE!)
For a more detailed description of Lexis's fantastic free appellate court search facility, see my earlier posting.
And for even more Daubert-type information, you can go to Blog 702 and Daubert on the Web, both by Peter Nordberg. (The reference in Blog 702 to “702” refers to Federal Rule of Evidence 702, which governs expert testimony.)