Linn v. Fossum

How courts have described this case

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• noting routine recognition that “an expert’s testimony may not merely be used as a conduit for the introduction of the otherwise inadmissible evidence” (internal quotations omitted)
• applying harmless error analysis to defendant’s improper bolstering of expert witness testimony
• “This is consistent with the general rule that it is improper on direct examination to introduce evidence to support the credibility of a witness.”
• improper to impeach an expert witness by eliciting from another expert witness what he thinks of that expert
• “Usually, experts can testify that they formed their opinions in reliance on sources that contain inadmissible information without also conveying the substance of the inadmissible information.”
• \[A]n expert is not permitted to testify on direct examination that the expert relied on consultations with colleagues or other experts in reaching his or her opinion.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).