However, what distinguished Greenleaf from previous apologists is that he is the first American apologist to develop an argument favoring the reliability of the gospels and specifically on the evidences for the resurrection of Jesus Christ using technical legal criteria. His technical arguments concerning the evidentiary weight of the eyewitness passages found in the gospel narratives, the criteria for cross-examining that eyewitness testimony, and the claimed status of the gospels as competent evidence, have been relied on and restated by several American Christian apologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Clarence Bartlett ("As A Lawyer Sees Jesus"), Walter M. Chandler ("The Trial of Jesus"), Pamela Binnings Ewen ("Faith on Trial"), Francis J. Lamb ("Miracle and Science"), Irwin H. Linton ("A Lawyer Examines the Bible"), Josh McDowell ("More Than A Carpenter", "The Resurrection Factor"), Howard Hyde Russell ("A Lawyer's Examination of the Bible"), Joseph Evans Sagebeer ("The Bible in Court"), and Stephen D. Williams ("The Bible in Court or Truth vs Error").