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locus delicti

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 328 U.S. 699 - United States v. Anderson · 1946Most cited · 528 citing opinions

the locus delicti must be determined from the nature of the crime alleged and the location of the act or acts constituting it

How often courts cite the case defining “locus delicti”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “locus delicti” — 528 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.