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United States v. Reid

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
53 U.S. 361
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
18 of 18
Citing cases (total)
18
Treatment dates
1918
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. United States v. Reid was overruled on its rule that the competence of witnesses in federal criminal trials was fixed by state law as it stood when federal courts were established. Rosen v. United States rejected that rule, and the Supreme Court later described Rosen in Washington v. Texas as having “expressly overruled” Reid.
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Reid's separate discussion of juror affidavits continued to be cited. All 18 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below.

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18 later cases cite United States v. Reid; 18 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

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court rejected Reid's 1789 witness competency rule and chose the later rule permitting testimony from competent witnesses.

    Rosen v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    While the decision in United States v. Reid, supra, has not been specifically overruled, its authority must be regarded as seriously shaken by the decisions in Logan v. United States, 144 U. S. 263-301, and in Benson v. United States, 146 U. S. 325. ... Accepting as we do the authority of the later, .the Benson Case, rather than that of the earlier decision, we *471shall dispose of the first question in this case, “in the light of general authority and sound reason.”. ... Satisfied as we are that the legislation and the very great weight of judicial authority which have developed in support of this modern rule, especially as applied to the competency of witnesses convicted of crime, proceed upon sound principle, we. conclude that the dead hand of the common-law rule of 1789 should no longer be applied to such cases as we have here, and that the ruling *472of the lower courts on this first claim of error should be approved.
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