Bowlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
November 2022
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Best · Lauderdale v. State · Taylor v. Reo Motors, Inc. · 87 Ill. App. 3d 771 - People v. Kurena · Stiles v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[demonstrating the working of machinery is an accepted part of evidence.... “In general, when a question arises whether at a certain machine, house, field, mine, or other thing, a certain act can be done under given conditions of time, strength, skill, or achievement, one way [to obtain the answer] is to speculate about it, and another way is to try it; and it is a crude error to suppose that the law of evidence here prefers speculation to experience, abhors actual experiment, and delights in guesswork.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coulter
How this case has been treated — in progress
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