Important Cases in the History of Forensic Psychiatry
Expert Witness Testimony Standards
Frye v. United States (1923)
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993)
Kumho Tire v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137 (1999)
Criminal Court Process
Competency to Stand Trial
Cooper v. Oklahoma, 517 U.S. 348 (1996)Insanity Defense
M'Naghten's Case (1843)
Durham v. United States (1954)
Psychiatry and the Death Penalty
Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986)
Atkins v. Virginia (2002)Defendants' Rights
Kansas v. Crane, 534 U.S. 407 (2002)
Civil Rights of Psychiatric Patients
Rouse v. Cameron (1966)
Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 310 (1990)
Physician-Patient Relationship Cases
Natanson v. Kline (1960)
Commonwealth v. Kobrin (1985)
Tarasoff v. Regents (1976)
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