18 U.S.C. § 3046
Section 3046 · Warrant or summons - (Rule)
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case United States v. Merlino (2015)
Most recently applied in United States v. Merlino (May 2015)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
Issuance upon complaint, Rule 4.
Issuance upon indictment, Rule 9.
Summons on request of government; form; contents; service; return, Rules 4, 9.