collateral issue
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 275 U.S. 106 - Segurola v. United States · 1927Most cited · 346 citing opinions
a court, when engaged in trying a criminal case, will not take notice of the manner in which witnesses have possessed themselves of papers or other articles of personal property, which are material and properly offered in evidence, because the court will not in trying a criminal cause permit a collateral issue to be raised as to the source of competent evidence
How often courts cite the case defining “collateral issue”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “collateral issue” — 334 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.