preliminary examination
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 357 U.S. 480 - Giordenello v. United States · 1958Most cited · 2,575 citing opinions
waiver
By waiving preliminary examination, a defendant waives no more than the right which this examination was intended to secure him—the right not to be held in the absence of a finding by the Commissioner of probable cause that he has committed an offense.
How often courts cite the case defining “preliminary examination”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “preliminary examination” — 2,575 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.