statement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 390 U.S. 377 - Simmons v. United States · 1968Most cited · 13,278 citing opinions
a written statement made by said witness and signed or otherwise adopted or approved by him * * *.' Written statements of this kind were taken from all five eyewitnesses by the FBI on the day of the robbery.
How often courts cite the cases defining “statement”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “statement” — 15,147 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 · 1959–1968
- ORIGINAL
summaries of an oral statement which evidence substantial selection of material, or which were prepared after the interview without the aid of complete notes, and hence rest on the memory of the agent, are not to be produced. Neither, of course, are statements which contain the agent's interpretations or impressions.
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