United States v. Brien

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that its within the broad discretion of the trial court to admit or exclude expert testimony on eyewitness identification
• noting that to change the usual practice, it was \up to\ defense counsel to offer a plan, which the judge could reject if he offers a \plausible justification\ for doing so
• unwilling to adopt blanket rule on admissibility of expert testimony of eyewitness reliability
• “a door once largely shut is now Fosher far more than to Smith. Apart from this distinction, somewhat ajar”
• “We are unwilling to adopt a blanket rule that qualified expert testimony on eyewitness identification must routinely be admitted or excluded.”
• \a door once largely shut is now somewhat ajar\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

39 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Nacchio
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-02-25· cited 397×
• United States v. Rodriguez-Felix
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-06-02· cited 221×
• United States v. Larry D. Hall
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-02-16· cited 211×
• State v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-07-25· cited 125×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred SMITH, Defendant-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-06-06· cited 124×
• United States v. Peter Kevin Langan
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-08-30· cited 107×
• United States v. James Smithers
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-05-08· cited 99×
• United States v. Shepard-Fraser
  First Circuit· 2015-04-22· cited 98×
• State v. Coley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-10-13· cited 71×
• United States v. Sebaggala
  First Circuit· 2001-07-16· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Santoli
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-05-08· cited 67×
• United States v. Rivers
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 1998-10-01· cited 53×
• State v. McClendon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-05-11· cited 52×
• McMullen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-09· cited 51×
• United States v. Cartagena-Carrasquillo
  First Circuit· 1995-12-01· cited 47×
• United States v. Jones
  First Circuit· 2012-07-27· cited 45×
• United States v. Hines
  D. Massachusetts· 1999-06-11· cited 44×
• United States v. Twitty
  First Circuit· 1995-12-28· cited 38×
• United States v. Rodriguez-Berrios
  First Circuit· 2009-07-23· cited 22×
• State v. Billie
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-08-10· cited 22×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Hamling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 2,897×
• United States v. Richard Stevens
  Third Circuit· 1991-06-12· cited 257×
• United States v. Shay
  First Circuit· 1995-06-22· cited 174×
• United States v. Franklin Evon Sebetich A/K/A Frank, Earl Dean, Jr., A/K/A Dooney, Michael John Buhovecky
  Third Circuit· 1985-10-31· cited 164×
• United States v. Michael P. Fosher
  First Circuit· 1979-01-15· cited 128×
• United States v. Hugo Rincon
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-06-17· cited 127×
• United States v. Torres Maldonado
  First Circuit· 1994-01-21· cited 82×
• United States v. Ronald E. Purham
  Eighth Circuit· 1984-01-16· cited 63×