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Pinkerton v. United States

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
328 U.S. 640
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
71 of 71
Citing cases (total)
3,200
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Pinkerton v. United States remains good law after all 71 flagged citations were read. The New York Court of Appeals chose a different rule for New York prosecutions under state law; that state-law choice does not alter Pinkerton’s federal holding.
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The other reviewed opinions applied Pinkerton, discussed treatment of other cases, or raised unadopted arguments. State v. Cornman recognized Pinkerton's general separate-offense rule and interpreted a distinct Missouri statute, but upheld the separate convictions before it; that opinion did not displace Pinkerton's federal holding.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

3,200 later cases cite Pinkerton v. United States; 71 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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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 71 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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