18 U.S.C. § 3232
Section 3232 · District of offense - (Rule)
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case United States v. Marks (2008)
Most recently applied in United States v. Ruben Gonzalez Contreras (August 2017)
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
Proceedings to be in district and division in which offense committed, Rule 18.