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Due process in criminal procedure

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Definitions from Case Law

From 232 U.S. 642 - William Garland v. State of Washington · 1914Most cited · 482 citing opinions

Due process of law, this court has held, does not require the state to adopt any particular form of procedure, so long as it appears that the accused has had sufficient notice of the accusation and an adequate opportunity to defend himself in the prosecution.

How often courts cite the case defining “Due process in criminal procedure”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Due process in criminal procedure” — 480 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.