Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
509 U.S. 579 (1993) Cited 26,767 times 231 Legal AnalysesHolding that a trial judge must ensure that all admitted expert testimony "is not only relevant, but reliable"
Boucher v. U.S. Suzuki Motor Corp.
73 F.3d 18 (2d Cir. 1996) Cited 367 timesHolding district court abused discretion in admitting expert testimony not "accompanied by a sufficient factual foundation"
B.F. Goodrich v. Betkoski
99 F.3d 505 (2d Cir. 1996) Cited 247 timesHolding that “a CERCLA plaintiff is not required to prove its case with scientific certainty” and observing that certainty “is not always a realistic goal in environmental science, where certainty can be elusive”
Malletier v. Dooney Bourke, Inc.
525 F. Supp. 2d 558 (S.D.N.Y. 2007) Cited 160 timesHolding that "the expert witness must in the end be giving his own opinion. . . . cannot simply be a conduit for the opinion of an unproduced expert"
R.F.M.A.S. Inc. v. Mimi so
748 F. Supp. 2d 244 (S.D.N.Y. 2010) Cited 105 timesFinding experts in jewelry history and appraisal unqualified to testify as to whether particular trade dress was identifiable to consumers and distinctive, because neither expert had training in how the public perceived products
U.S. v. Damrah
412 F.3d 618 (6th Cir. 2005) Cited 105 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that district court did not abuse its discretion in allowing expert testimony based on, inter alia, books, press releases, and newspaper articles and quoting the district court's opinion that "[g]iven the secretive nature of terrorists, the Court can think of few other materials that experts in the field of terrorism would rely upon"
Thomas J. Kline, Inc. v. Lorillard, Inc.
878 F.2d 791 (4th Cir. 1989) Cited 162 timesHolding that for an expert to be struck he must have "neither satisfactory knowledge, skill, experience, training nor education on the issue for which the opinion is proferred"
Brooks v. Outboard Marine Corp.
234 F.3d 89 (2d Cir. 2000) Cited 87 timesHolding that failure to test theory of causation justified exclusion of expert testimony
Johnson Johnson Vision Care v. Ciba Vision Corp.
No. 04 Civ. 7369 (LTS)(HBP) (S.D.N.Y. Jul. 27, 2006) Cited 56 timesFinding that objections to an expert's assumptions go to weight rather than admissibility
Nobody in Particular Presents v. Clear Channel Comm.
311 F. Supp. 2d 1048 (D. Colo. 2004) Cited 55 timesFinding that the expert's methodology is sufficient