460 So. 2d 296 - Prewitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2000
14 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · Frye v. United States · Angrist v. United States · Gooding v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“" In appropriate cases , Alabama follows the rule in Frye v. United States , 293 F. 1013 (D.C. 1923), for safeguarding 'against admission into evidence of facts gleaned from an unreliable scientific test.' Ex parte Dolvin , 391 So.2d 677 (Ala. 1980); see, Wilcutt v. State , 41 Ala. App. 25 , 123 So.2d 193 , cert. denied, 271 Ala. 315 , 123 So.2d 203 (1960); Flurry v. State , 52 Ala. App. 64 , 289 So.2d 632 (1973), cert. denied, 292 Ala. 720 , 289 So.2d 644 (1974); Wynn v. State , 423 So.2d 294 (Ala.Crim.App. 1982). In order to satisfy the Frye test for general admissibility, a scientific principle or discovery, or evidence produced therefrom, 'must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.' Frye v. United States , supra."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“emerging trend appears to be a rule which prohibits the admission of hypnotically induced recollections (at least until such time as they are proven to be in compliance with the Frye test), but permits pre -hypnosis evidence from that same witness on the same subject,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In appropriate cases, Alabama follows the rule in Frye v. United States , 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923), for safeguarding `against admission into evidence of facts gleaned from an unreliable scientific test.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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