confrontation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 402 U.S. 622 - Nelson v. O'NEIL · 1971Most cited · 957 citing opinions
the 'confrontation' guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is confrontation at trial—that is, that the absence of the defendant at the time the codefendant allegedly made the out-of-court statement is immaterial, so long as the declarant can be cross-examined on the witness stand at trial
How often courts cite the cases defining “confrontation”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “confrontation” — 1,789 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 · 1963–1971
- 1963·373 U.S. 96 - Willner v. Committee on Character and Fitness, Appellate Div. of Supreme Court of NY, First Judicial Dept.[p17]· cited 838×ORIGINAL
The need for confrontation is a necessary conclusion from the requirements of procedural due process in a situation such as this. Procedural due process often requires confrontation and cross-examination of those whose word deprives a person of his livelihood.