United States v. Addison’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 741 · 1974
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Barefoot v. Estelle (1983), 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly (1976)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Kotteakos v. United States · Frye v. United States · United States v. Dionisio · Territo v. United States · Magenau v. Aetna Freight Lines, 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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The requirement of general acceptance in the scientific community assures that those most qualified to assess the general validity of a scientific method will have the determinative voice. Additionally, the Frye test protects prosecution and defense alike by assuring that a minimal reserve of experts exists who can critically examine the validity of a scientific determination in a particular case. Since scientific proof may in some instances assume a posture of mystic infallibility in the eyes of a jury of laymen, the ability to produce rebuttal experts, equally conversant with the mechanics and methods of a particular technique, may prove to be essential.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Just when a scientific principle or discovery crosses the line between the experimental and demonstrable stages is difficult to define. Somewhere in this twilight zone the evidential force of the principle must be recognized, and while courts will go a long way in admitting expert testimony deduced from a well-recognized scientific principle or discovery, the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“techniques of speaker identification by spectogram (sic) comparison have not attained the general acceptance of the scientific community to the degree required in this jurisdiction by Frye (Frye v. United States, 54 U.S.App.D.C. 46, 293 F. 1013 (1923)).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.