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Crain v. United States

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
162 U.S. 625
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
60 of 60
Citing cases (total)
60
Treatment dates
1914
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Crain v. United States was overruled in part. All 60 flagged citations have been read.
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Garland v. Washington overruled Crain's formal arraignment and recorded plea requirement when the defendant had notice and an opportunity to defend and went to trial without a timely objection. Crain’s separate indictment holdings remain distinct.

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.

60 later cases cite Crain v. United States; 60 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 in part

  • The Court overruled Crain to the extent it required technical enforcement of formal arraignment and plea rights in criminal procedure.

    Garland v. Washington · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    we now are constrained to hold that the technical enforcement of formal ... rights in criminal procedure sustained in the Crain Case is no longer required in the prosecution of offenses under present systems of law, and so far as that case is not in accord with the views herein expressed it is necessarily overruled.
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