superseding indictment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 474 U.S. 231 - United States v. Rojas-Contreras · 1985Most cited · 432 citing opinions
a second indictment issued in the absence of a dismissal of the first.
How often courts cite the case defining “superseding indictment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “superseding indictment” — 432 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.