United States v. Frederick Leon Dotson

How courts have described this case

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

• excluding government agents’ Fed. R. Evid. 608 opinions as to defendant’s character for untruthfulness where only basis for opinions was their criminal investigation of defendant
• reversing conviction and noting that“[t]he record should reflect some indication that the court did not merely let down the bars to the expression of any opinions the prosecutor’s witnesses wanted to voice”
• character evidence as to truthfulness inadmissible if only basis for opinions of government agents was their involvement in criminal investigation of defendants
• a six-year relationship between an agent and witness in the context of an investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Edwards v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-12· cited 245×
• United States v. Finley
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-01-26· cited 162×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 116×
• United States v. Anthony C. Zizzo, James J. Marcello, Richard Gervasio, Anthony N. Chiaramonti, Brett K. O'dell, and Samuel A. Carlisi
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-07-29· cited 106×
• United States v. Primitivo Cortez
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-07-30· cited 105×
• United States v. Whitmore, Gerald F.
  D.C. Circuit· 2004-03-05· cited 88×
• United States v. Rudy Rios Sanchez
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-04-09· cited 79×
• United States v. Nicholas Turning Bear, Iii, Also Known as Nicholas Turning Bear, Jr., III
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-02-02· cited 73×
• United States v. Garza
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-04-26· cited 50×
• United States v. Darnell Williams
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-08-28· cited 47×
• Rose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-07· cited 43×
• United States v. Maria Del Rosario Ortiz, Ricardo Garza, Juanita R. Garza, and Ismael Soza
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-09-13· cited 39×
• State v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-11-08· cited 37×
• United States v. John L. McMurray
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-04-19· cited 30×
• State v. Dutton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-03-13· cited 28×
• Boyle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-03-29· cited 22×
• United States v. Reveles
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 1995-02-28· cited 17×
• State v. Maxwell
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2001-01-31· cited 16×
• Glenn R. Schultz v. Daniel Thomas and Carl Pavilonis
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-12-09· cited 7×
• Graham v. Lombardi
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1989-12-18· cited 7×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Orange Jell Beechum
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-25· cited 1,202×
• Geders v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-30· cited 1,182×
• United States v. Will Renfro
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-06-30· cited 109×
• United States v. Johnny Walker
  Sixth Circuit· 1963-02-04· cited 28×
• United States v. Howard Thomas Lollar
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-11-14· cited 28×
• United States v. George Phillips
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-08-09· cited 26×