People v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• general acceptance of test by individuals who would be expected to be familiar with its use is all that is required in this age of specialization
• Nalline test for narcotic use; prosecution expert testified that the medical profession in general was unfamiliar with its use; selection of “medicine” as the field would have blocked admissibility because that which is generally unknown cannot be generally accepted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• People v. Kelly
  California Supreme Court· 1976-05-28· cited 668×
• United States v. John W. Downing
  Third Circuit· 1985-01-25· cited 627×
• People v. Shirley
  California Supreme Court· 1982-03-11· cited 314×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-09-06· cited 224×
• People v. Leahy
  California Supreme Court· 1994-10-27· cited 195×
• People v. Rogers
  California Supreme Court· 1971-06-22· cited 139×
• In Re De La O
  California Supreme Court· 1963-02-14· cited 129×
• United States v. Ridling
  E.D. Michigan· 1972-10-06· cited 91×
• State v. Collins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-09-08· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Lykus
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-03-27· cited 85×
• State v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1981-01-17· cited 85×
• People v. Reilly
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-12-09· cited 61×
• Huntingdon v. Crowley
  California Supreme Court· 1966-05-25· cited 49×
• State v. Ballesteros
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-04-29· cited 46×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-08-13· cited 32×
• Goldstein v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-07· cited 32×
• State v. Coolidge
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1969-06-30· cited 30×
• In Re Marks
  California Supreme Court· 1969-04-30· cited 28×
• Hodo v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1973-02-22· cited 22×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• People v. Carter
  California Supreme Court· 1957-06-21· cited 300×
• People v. Jaurequi
  California Court of Appeal· 1956-06-26· cited 68×
• People v. Wochnick
  California Court of Appeal· 1950-06-16· cited 59×
• People v. Black
  California Court of Appeal· 1941-05-28· cited 52×
• People v. Aragon
  California Court of Appeal· 1957-10-23· cited 38×
• People v. Thompson
  California Court of Appeal· 1956-09-04· cited 24×
• People v. Thompson
  California Supreme Court· 1896-02-10· cited 21×
• People v. Porter
  California Court of Appeal· 1955-10-21· cited 20×
• People v. Ah Woo
  California Supreme Court· 1865-04-15· cited 13×
• People v. Garcia
  California Court of Appeal· 1953-11-19· cited 12×
• People v. Culberson
  Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California· 1956-03-15· cited 1×