United States v. Earnest McClain

How courts have described this case

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

• failure to give limiting instruction on proper use of prior inconsistent statement not plain error
• “[wjhenever evidence is admitted only for a limited purpose, it is plain error, in the absence of manifest waiver, to omit an immediate cautioning instruction.”
• when evidence of other misconduct is admitted for limited purpose, it is plain error to omit cautioning instruction
• failure to give limiting instruction on proper use of prior inconsistent statement not plain error
• “[t]he doctrine of curative admissibility is one dangerously prone to overuse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Claude L. Blackwell
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-12-10· cited 218×
• Irick v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1989-10-05· cited 211×
• United States v. Irie E. Leonard, United States of America v. James L. Sarvis
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-01-31· cited 150×
• United States v. George Gordon Liddy, A/K/A George F. Leonard
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-11-08· cited 138×
• United States v. Lawrence Daniel Caldwell, A/K/A Thomas E. Morgan, (Two Cases). United States of America v. Eros A. Timm, (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-09-23· cited 132×
• United States v. Anthony F. Wright
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-12-27· cited 130×
• Mercer v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1999-01-28· cited 96×
• United States v. Frank W. Winston
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-06-30· cited 94×
• United States v. James F. Johnson
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-09-30· cited 92×
• United States v. James J. Young
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-05-31· cited 91×
• Dixon v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1972-01-31· cited 88×
• Middleton v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-04-20· cited 84×
• United States v. Thomas E. Fench, United States of America v. William H. Blackwell
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-01-22· cited 82×
• United States v. James Earl Fleming, Jr., Henry Lee Fleming and Tommie Earl Millender
  Seventh Circuit· 1979-06-11· cited 81×
• United States v. Willie Bell, (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-11-01· cited 80×
• Johnson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-05-22· cited 78×
• United States v. Lioyd Lee, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-12-09· cited 75×
• United States v. John Conley, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-10-21· cited 69×
• United States v. Bruner
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-06-23· cited 69×
• United States v. Garnell S. Robinson
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-02-20· cited 67×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Atkinson
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-03· cited 1,580×
• Palmer v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-01· cited 1,191×
• Nathan L. Drew v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-02-13· cited 860×
• United States v. Donald Kenneth Currens
  Third Circuit· 1961-05-01· cited 193×
• United States v. Charles W. Deaton
  Second Circuit· 1967-07-28· cited 83×
• O'Day v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-10· cited 74×
• Joseph Wakaksan, Jr. v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1966-10-31· cited 65×
• Pennsylvania Railroad v. Minds
  Supreme Court· 1919-06-09· cited 61×
• United States v. Victor Domenic Cifarelli
  Second Circuit· 1968-12-09· cited 56×
• Aaron Jones v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-09-29· cited 53×
• John F. Golden, Jr. v. United States
  First Circuit· 1963-06-18· cited 47×
• Burns v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-16· cited 46×
• United States v. Harold W. Barbour
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-10-09· cited 39×
• Griffin v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1947-12-08· cited 38×
• Robert Roberts, Jr. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1960-06-09· cited 24×
• Luther O. Troublefield v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-01-13· cited 11×
• Mansell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-01-02· cited 11×