ABSTRACT
It has been a decade since Meloy, Hansen, and Weiner (1997) reported on the authority of the Rorschach in court between 1945 and1995. In their study of a half century of legal citations that appeared in federal, state, and military courts of appeal concerning the Rorschach, the test was cited in 247 published cases, and issues concerning the scientific nature of the test arose in 10.5% of the citations. After studying these particular cases, they concluded that “despite occasional disparagement by prosecutors, the majority of the courts found the test findings to be both reliable and valid” (p. 53).
