United States v. Barrett James

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that using a criminal jury’s answers to special interrogatories in order to resolve ambiguities in the general verdict “would constitute a manifest invasion of the jury’s exclusive deliberative function in arriving at a verdict”
• distinguishing special interrogatories seeking to explain the general verdict from special interrogatories being used “to assist in sentencing”
• “sharply contrast[ing]” use of special interrogatories “to assist in sentencing” with their impermissible use “to clarify an ambiguous verdict”

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Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Michael J. McNeese and Laura Conwell
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-05-02· cited 196×
• Commonwealth v. Osellanie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-25· cited 32×
• United States v. Darin L. Hedgepeth
  Third Circuit· 2006-01-12· cited 29×
• United States v. Patrick M. Cannon
  First Circuit· 1990-05-18· cited 24×
• State v. Estevez
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 23×
• United States v. Holmes
  Third Circuit· 2010-06-07· cited 19×
• State v. Toth
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1993-01-05· cited 17×
• United States v. Barrett (James)
  Third Circuit· 1991-02-06
• United States v. Hedgepeth
  Third Circuit· 2006-01-12
• Commonwealth v. Muhammad, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-05-30

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Spock
  First Circuit· 1969-07-11· cited 186×
• United States v. Eduardo Orozco-Prada, Humberto Orozco-Prada, Paul Forand and Mahlon Clark
  Second Circuit· 1984-04-12· cited 160×
• Kawakita v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-10-13· cited 140×
• United States v. Bobby Roy Dennis, Sr., Sharon Denise Cohen, Clarence Bobby Jennings, Brenda Jewell Hurley
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-04-14· cited 127×
• United States v. Carman
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-06-23· cited 96×
• Orozco v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 95×
• United States v. Grady Quicksey, United States of America v. Mary Jane Quicksey, United States of America v. Alfred Dumeur
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-01-26· cited 73×
• United States v. John M. Buishas, Charles R. Gies and William J. Michael
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-05-30· cited 56×
• Charles Edward Williams v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-12-07· cited 47×
• United States v. Francis P. Desmond
  Third Circuit· 1982-03-03· cited 36×
• United States v. Gary D. Lee
  Third Circuit· 1976-03-22· cited 31×
• United States v. Uzzolino, Joseph P.
  Third Circuit· 1981-06-15· cited 22×
• Kay F. Glenn v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-07-23· cited 15×

Other cases named United States v. Barrett James

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• United States v. Barrett (James)
  Third Circuit· 1991-02-06
• United States v. Barrett (James)
  Third Circuit· 1992-01-16