Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 90.702 (2025)
Testimony by experts.
✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us
JustiaFla. Statutes
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
90.702 Testimony by experts.—If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact in understanding the evidence or in determining a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify about it in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if:
(1) The testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data;
(2) The testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods; and
(3) The witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.
History.—s. 1, ch. 76-237; s. 1, ch. 77-77; s. 22, ch. 78-361; s. 1, ch. 78-379; s. 1, ch. 2013-107.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 290
cases (44 in the last 5 years), 1980–2026 · leading case: Richard DeLisle v. Crane Co., 258 So. 3d 1219 (Fla. 2018).
Richard DeLisle v. Crane Co., 258 So. 3d 1219 (Fla. 2018). “§ 90.702, Fla. Stat. (as amended by ch. 2013-107, § 1, Laws of Fla.”
Megan E. Baan, as the Pers. etc. v. Columbia Cnty., 180 So. 3d 1127 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015). “§ 90.702, Fla. Stat. (2014). By amending section 90.”
L.L. v. State, 189 So. 3d 252 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016). “As amended, Section 90.702, Florida Statutes, reads as follows: 90.”
McMullen v. State, 714 So. 2d 368 (Fla. 1998). “Under our evidence code, § 90.702, Fla. Stat. (1997), the trial judge, in considering the admissibility of this type of evidence, must evaluate whether the evidence will assist the trier of fact in understanding the evidence or in determining a fact in issue.”
Simmons v. State, 934 So. 2d 1100 (Fla. 2006). “Section 90.702, Florida Statutes (2005), titled "Testimony by experts," provides: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of *1125 fact in understanding the evidence or in determining a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by…”
R.C. v. State, 192 So. 3d 606 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). “’s book bag as marijuana and drug paraphernalia because the State failed to satisfy the recently adopted Daubert 1 standard for the admissibility of expert testimony as stated in section 90.702, Florida Statutes (2014) (codifying Dmbert).”
Simona Bunin v. Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., etc., 197 So. 3d 1109 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016). “The defendants moved to exclude the opinion of the plaintiffs causation expert, based on the recent change to section 90.702, Florida Statutes (2013), which now requires trial courts to apply the standard of Daubert v.”
Giaimo v. Florida Autosport, Inc., 154 So. 3d 385 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014). “§ 90.702, Fla. Stat. The Legislature’s adoption of the Daubert standard reflected its intent to prohibit “pure opinion testimony, as provided in Marsh v.”
Kruse v. State, 483 So. 2d 1383 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986). “Section 90.702 contains three requirements: (1) that the opinion evidence be helpful to the trier of fact; (2) that the witness be qualified as an expert; and (3) that the opinion evidence can be applied to evidence offered at trial.”
Justin Ryan McMillian v. State of Florida, 214 So. 3d 1274 (Fla. 2017). “” See § 90.702, Fla. Stat. Accordingly, Wolcott’s testimony was - 21 - properly admitted, and trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise a meritless objection.”
Pagan v. State, 830 So. 2d 792 (Fla. 2002). “Section 90.702, Florida Statutes (1995), provides: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact in understanding the evidence or in determining a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training,…”
Lynch v. State, 2 So. 3d 47 (Fla. 2009). “Under section 90.702, Florida Statutes, expert testimony is admissible only where "specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact in understanding the evidence or in determining *82 a fact in issue.”
— 90.702(1) — 1 case
& SC13-2330 Michael A. Hernandez, Jr. v. State of Florida & Michael A. Hernandez, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, etc., 180 So. 3d 978 (Fla. 2015).
— 90.702(2) — 3 cases
Megan E. Baan, as the Pers. etc. v. Columbia Cnty., 180 So. 3d 1127 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015). “§ 90.702, Fla. Stat. (2014). By amending section 90.”
Walgreens Co. v. Maria Victoria Chaux (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).
James Herard v. State of Florida (Fla. 2024).
— 90.702(3) — 2 cases
Jones v. State, 197 So. 3d 1085 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015).
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.