United States v. Gary Ladd

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that because “jurors are not expected to be familiar with the idiom and workings of the heroin community ... [ejxpert interpretation of drug jargon and practices, supplied by one versed in the business, has often been admitted to assist the trier of fact in drug-trafficking cases”
• finding erroneous admission of evidence harmless when the evidence served only to prove a point well documented by other evidence
• describing chain of custody requirements
• explicating Kotteakos \fair assurance\ standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Ilario M.A. Zannino
  First Circuit· 1990-01-10· cited 2,914×
• United States v. Sepulveda
  First Circuit· 1993-12-20· cited 733×
• United States v. Boylan
  First Circuit· 1990-03-14· cited 393×
• United States v. Ruben Ortiz, A/K/A Ruben Ortiz De Jesus, United States of America v. Felix Nunez, A/K/A Felix Nunez Molina
  First Circuit· 1992-07-21· cited 384×
• Ruiz-Troche v. Pepsi Cola of Puerto Rico Bottling Co.
  First Circuit· 1998-12-01· cited 366×
• United States v. McVeigh
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-09-08· cited 303×
• United States v. Marco A. Echeverri
  First Circuit· 1993-01-05· cited 204×
• United States v. Jaime Leon Gomez-Norena
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-07-12· cited 200×
• United States v. Perez-Ruiz
  First Circuit· 2003-12-22· cited 182×
• United States v. Gifford
  First Circuit· 1994-03-01· cited 171×
• Scott Peckham v. Continental Casualty Insurance Co., Scott Peckham v. Continental Casualty Insurance Co.
  First Circuit· 1990-02-08· cited 164×
• United States v. Holmquist
  First Circuit· 1994-09-28· cited 156×
• Iacobucci v. Town of Pembroke
  First Circuit· 1999-10-04· cited 156×
• United States v. Lara
  First Circuit· 1999-06-30· cited 142×
• Mancini v. City of Providence
  First Circuit· 2018-11-21· cited 130×
• People v. Mateo
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1996-07-31· cited 128×
• United States v. John J. Maguire, United States v. Thomas M. Kavanagh, United States v. Robert A. Hickey
  First Circuit· 1990-11-02· cited 114×
• United States v. Peter Noone
  First Circuit· 1990-09-06· cited 111×
• United States v. Michael Maraj, United States of America v. Sterling Fuentes
  First Circuit· 1991-10-16· cited 100×
• United States v. Piper
  First Circuit· 2002-07-26· cited 98×

Cites

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

• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Bollenbach v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-01-28· cited 949×
• United States v. Barry J. Griffin
  First Circuit· 1987-04-23· cited 217×
• United States v. Hector M. Rodriguez-Estrada
  First Circuit· 1989-06-14· cited 181×
• United States v. Barry Hoffman
  First Circuit· 1987-11-06· cited 179×
• Freeman v. Package Machinery Co.
  First Circuit· 1988-11-22· cited 166×
• United States v. Hensel
  First Circuit· 1983-01-25· cited 143×
• United States v. Alphonse Cirillo
  Second Circuit· 1974-05-07· cited 121×
• United States v. Robert F. Tierney
  First Circuit· 1985-05-03· cited 104×
• United States v. Stephen O. Masse
  First Circuit· 1987-04-21· cited 99×
• United States v. Michael J. Fields, United States of America v. James P. Bramble, United States of America v. Vincent MacPherson
  First Circuit· 1989-05-12· cited 98×
• United States v. William H. Wilson, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1986-07-30· cited 93×
• John Real v. William T. Hogan
  First Circuit· 1987-09-11· cited 93×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1987-03-19· cited 92×
• United States v. Alfred Argentine
  First Circuit· 1987-03-20· cited 85×
• United States v. Robert Hyson, United States of America v. Edward Ennis, A/K/A \Tiger\, United States of America v. Richard Gomes
  First Circuit· 1983-11-23· cited 82×
• United States v. Antonio J. Mazza, United States of America v. Anthony Decologero
  First Circuit· 1986-06-03· cited 80×
• United States v. Felix German Luna, United States of America v. Wilberto Luna, United States of America v. Hipolito Cruz
  First Circuit· 1978-10-02· cited 78×
• United States v. William T. Marler
  First Circuit· 1985-03-08· cited 73×
• United States v. John D. Polito
  First Circuit· 1988-09-12· cited 71×