criminal case
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 142 U.S. 547 - Counselman v. Hitchcock · 1892Most cited · 2,206 citing opinions
only a criminal prosecution against the witness himself, disapproved.
How often courts cite the case defining “criminal case”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “criminal case” — 2,197 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.