United States v. Mark Willner, M.D.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the district court’s error in allowing a witness to give expert testimony was harmless because of “the overwhelming evidence of the [defendants’] guilt as charged in the indictment”
• stating deliberate ignorance may establish knowledge of the unlawful purpose of the conspiracy
• “Anyone can state what a document says or read from it if it has been admitted into evidence, and permitting this testimony was not error.”
• “One circumstance in which courts find constitutional errors harmless beyond a reasonable doubt is when the evidence of the defendant’s guilt is ‘so overwhelming.’”
• “When there is overwhelming evidence of a defendant’s guilt . . . non-constitutional error is harmless.”
• reversing a conspiracy conviction for lack of proof of knowledge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. David Ming Pon
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-06-29· cited 49×
• United States v. Roger Bergman
  Eleventh Circuit· 2017-03-24· cited 30×
• United States v. Doris Crabtree
  Eleventh Circuit· 2018-01-03· cited 20×
• United States v. Arman Abovyan
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-02-22· cited 17×
• United States v. Frank Bell
  Eleventh Circuit· 2024-08-14· cited 11×
• United States v. Vanja Abreu
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-10-01· cited 5×
• United States v. Pontz
  First Circuit· 2025-03-14· cited 3×
• United States v. Abercrombie
  M.D. Alabama· 2019-05-28· cited 1×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• United States v. Brandon
  First Circuit· 1994-01-31· cited 453×
• United States v. Ronald Keith Brown
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-07-08· cited 372×
• United States v. Terence George Kelly
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-09-29· cited 276×
• United States v. James P. Hornaday
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-12-13· cited 182×
• United States v. Raul Trujillo, Francisco Nelson Fuentes
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-10-05· cited 154×
• United States v. Reynaldo Diaz
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-12-29· cited 115×
• United States v. Woodard
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-06-27· cited 114×
• United States v. Medina
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-05-11· cited 105×
• United States v. Mohan Mankani, Kenneth R. Norris, Joseph Fortin, Peter Christopher MacFarlane Sally Edith
  Second Circuit· 1984-06-20· cited 103×
• United States v. Leroy Warshawsky (93-1345) Ira Warshawsky (93-1346) and Ted Warshawsky (93-1473)
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-06-23· cited 83×
• United States v. Guzman
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-02-12· cited 78×
• United States v. Thomas Constant
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-10-04· cited 30×
• United States v. Graham
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-06-14· cited 29×
• United States v. Investment Enterprises, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-12-17· cited 23×
• United States v. Arthur L. Herzberg and Gerald M. Barnes
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-09-12· cited 21×