United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
January 2024
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc. · Watkins v. Sowders
Most-quoted passages
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“The day may have arrived, therefore, when testimony [on the reliability of eyewitness identifications] can be said to conform to a generally accepted explanatory theory.”); United States v. Smith, 621 F.Supp.2d 1207, 1212-13 (M.D.Ala.2009) (concluding that because the expert’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“theories underlying [his] testimony have been well-tested in peer-reviewed publications,” the expert was "equipped to provide the jury with reliable expert testimony on eyewitness identifications”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“theories underlying [his] testimony have been well-tested in peer-reviewed publications,” the expert was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.