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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 404 U.S. 307 - United States v. Marion · 1971Most cited · 7,408 citing opinions
Sixth Amendment speedy trial
the Sixth Amendment speedy trial provision has no application until the putative defendant in some way becomes an 'accused' . . . . It is either a formal indictment or information or else the actual restraints imposed by arrest and holding to answer a criminal charge that engage the particular protections of the speedy trial provision of the Sixth Amendment.
How often courts cite the case defining “accused”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “accused” — 7,405 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.