Powers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
April 1998
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Abney v. United States · Arizona v. Washington · United States v. Josef Perez · United States v. Grasso
Most-quoted passages
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“risk of jury contamination, enhanced by each day it was in recess.” Id. at 1207 . 10 . While the judge herself explained to the defendants what a mistrial entailed (i.e., that a new trial would take place, before which they would”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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