Rewis v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity”
• holding that ambiguity in criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity
• observing that “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity”
• emphasizing that “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity”
• explaining that the rule of lenity dictates that “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity [to the defendant].”
• explaining that the rule of lenity dictates that \ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity [to the defendant].\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

492 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Lopez
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-26· cited 3,052×
• Whalen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-16· cited 1,789×
• United States v. Bass
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 1,739×
• United States v. Batchelder
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,568×
• Perrin v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-11-27· cited 1,399×
• McNally v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-24· cited 1,314×
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 1,267×
• Chiarella v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 1,089×
• Skilling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 987×
• Tanner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 915×
• Liparota v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 890×
• United States v. Feola
  Supreme Court· 1975-03-19· cited 856×
• Lewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-27· cited 843×
• United States v. Nelson Bell
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-06-01· cited 819×
• Moskal v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-12-03· cited 742×
• United States v. Albertini
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-24· cited 731×
• Bryan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-15· cited 683×
• Simpson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-28· cited 656×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-22· cited 626×
• Busic v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 597×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 1,300×
• Marchetti v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-29· cited 1,283×
• Grosso v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-29· cited 947×
• United States v. George Barrow, Benny Bonanno, Fred Dipatrizio, Joseph Mattia and Pasquale Pillo
  Third Circuit· 1966-08-30· cited 92×
• United States v. Edward H. Chambers
  Sixth Circuit· 1967-09-29· cited 70×
• United States v. Frank Nick Zizzo, Alexander Stasnick, Hugo A. Lazzareschi and Walterwojciechowski
  Seventh Circuit· 1964-12-16· cited 65×

Other cases named Rewis v. United States

11 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-12-05· cited 20×
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-12-05· cited 16×
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-07-02· cited 12×
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-11-18· cited 10×
• Rewis v. United States
  S.D. Georgia· 1969-09-26· cited 3×
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-12-05· cited 1×
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-01-27· cited 1×
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-07-02
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-01-27
• Rewis v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-01-27
• Rewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-10-12