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Case Name: James FRYE v. US

Date, Location, Cite: 1923 DC
293 F. 1013
US Circuit Court of Appeals for DC

When the question involved is outside the range of common experience or knowledge, then [experts] are needed; the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the field in which it belongs. cf Daubert v. Merrell Dow