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Old Chief v. United States

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

Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
519 U.S. 172
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
100 of 100
Citing cases (total)
2,887
Treatment dates
1999
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Old Chief v. United States has been limited: all 100 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed federal-law treatment is listed below. Melvin Turner v. United States denied Old Chief retroactive effect on collateral review.
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Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama courts separately chose rules for their own criminal proceedings, listed below. Two early Florida appellate refusals supply no live entries because the Supreme Court of Florida later quashed both decisions and adopted Old Chief.

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.

2,887 later cases cite Old Chief v. United States; 100 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 Sixth Circuit held that Old Chief does not apply retroactively on collateral review.

    Melvin Turner v. United States · Sixth Circuit · filed

    Because Old Chief does not apply retroactively, Turner may not collaterally attack the district court’s decision to allow the jury to hear the name and nature of Turner’s previous convictions.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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