duplicity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 273 U.S. 593 - Ford v. United States · 1927Most cited · 1,180 citing opinions
The charge is unitary in relating to one continuous conspiracy, although in proof of it different circumstances constituting it and overt acts in pursuance of it are disclosed. This does not constitute duplicity.
How often courts cite the case defining “duplicity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “duplicity” — 1,178 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.