complaint
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 473 U.S. 716 - Carchman v. Nash New Jersey Department of Corrections · 1985Most cited · 888 citing opinions
inter alia," any "utterance expressing a grievance."
Webster's New International Unabridged Dictionary 546 (2d ed. 1957).
How often courts cite the cases defining “complaint”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “complaint” — 1,580 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1965–1985
- ORIGINAL
the complaint, to initiate the time extension, must be adequate to begin effectively the criminal process prescribed by the Federal Criminal Rules. It must be sufficient to justify the next steps in the process—those of notifying the defendant and bringing him before the Commissioner for a preliminary hearing. To do so the complaint must satisfy the probable cause requirement of Rule 4.
§6531 limitation extension