18 U.S.C. § 3741
Section 3741 · Harmless error and plain error - (Rule)
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case United States v. Ocasio (1990)
Most recently applied in United States v. Hesser (September 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
Error or defect as affecting substantial rights, Rule 52.
Defects in indictment, Rule 7.
Waiver of error, Rules 12(b)(2) and 30.