State v. Dixon

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that experts in various fields can testify “to a reasonable scientific certainty,” thereby implying that they cannot testify to an absolute certainty
• noting that “relevant scientific community” includes experts who are “actually involved in latent-print analysis and those who actually research the reliability of latent-print analysis”
• noting that Dr. Zabell opined that “there is no ACE-V manual and there is no precise statement as to how certain determinations are made”
• noting that the “subjective component” does not prevent the analysis from being “reliable or accurate”
• affirming lower court’s conclusion that ACE-V methodology was generally accepted within the relevant scientific community, after conducting Frye hearing involving three expert witnesses from the State and two expert witnesses for the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Luna
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-04-25· cited 22×
• People v. O.D.
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-11-27· cited 11×
• State v. Hightower
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2017-02-28· cited 7×
• State of Minnesota v. Justin Dillard Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2017-01-17· cited 3×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2015-08-14· cited 1×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• State v. MacK
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-05-16· cited 207×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-12-13· cited 82×
• People v. Young
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1986-08-05· cited 79×
• Goeb v. Tharaldson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2000-08-17· cited 77×
• State v. Kolander
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1952-03-21· cited 75×
• State v. Grecinger
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-09-18· cited 74×
• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-21· cited 71×
• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-07-06· cited 65×
• Doe v. Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-07-25· cited 65×
• State v. Ritt
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-08-05· cited 62×
• State v. Riley
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-07-31· cited 58×
• State v. Bloom
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-04-29· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Gambora
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-09-02· cited 41×
• State v. Fenney
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-11-03· cited 40×
• State v. Roman Nose
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-08-22· cited 34×
• State v. Traylor
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2003-02-24· cited 28×
• State v. Hull
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-09-09· cited 22×
• United States v. Rose
  D. Maryland· 2009-12-08· cited 19×
• State v. Jensen
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1992-03-10· cited 15×