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United States v. Murdock

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

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Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
290 U.S. 389
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
40 of 40
Citing cases (total)
40
Treatment dates
1973
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At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Limited. All 40 flagged citations to United States v. Murdock have been read.
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The Ninth Circuit declined to apply its rule restricting a federal judge's comment on guilt as a constitutional requirement in state trials; that treatment is listed below. Courts continued to cite Murdock's separate holding that a good faith misunderstanding can defeat criminal willfulness. Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor rejected the Fifth Amendment rule from the earlier United States v. Murdock, 284 U.S. 141 (1931), rather than the willfulness holding of this 1934 decision.

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40 later cases cite United States v. Murdock; 40 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The en banc Ninth Circuit declined to make Murdock's rule about a federal judge's comment on guilt a federal due process requirement for state trials.

    Davis v. Craven · Ninth Circuit, en banc · filed

    We do not favor “constitutionalizing,” and thus imposing on the states, the result reached in United States v. Murdock, 1933, 290 U.S. 389, 54 S.Ct. 223, 78 L.Ed. 381.
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