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Supreme Court· 5/24/2010

United States v. Marcus

Citations

  • 176 L. Ed. 2d 1012
  • 2010 U.S. LEXIS 4163
  • 130 S. Ct. 2159
  • 560 U.S. 258
  • 22 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 355
  • 78 U.S.L.W. 4453

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that party claiming plain error must show (1) error; (2) that is clear or obvious, rather than subject to reasonable dispute; (3) that affected party’s substantial rights; and (4
  • holding that for error to be “plain,” there must be “a reasonable probability that the error affected the outcome of the trial”
  • holding that due process is violated “if the jury . . . was not instructed about [a criminal statute’s] enactment date” and convicts a defendant for “noncriminal, preenactment conduct”
  • holding that plain error will be identified only if (1) there is error; (2) that is clear or obvious, rather than subject to reasonable dispute; (3) that affects defendant’s substantial rights; and (4
  • holding that party 16 13‐4069‐cr United States v. Spruill claiming plain error must show (1) error; (2) that is clear or obvious, rather than subject to reasonable dispute; (3) that affected party’s substantial rights; and (4
  • holding that an appellate court may reverse for plain error where “(1) there is an error; (2) the error is clear or obvious . . . ; (3

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alito, Breyer, Consideration, Ginsburg, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor, Stevens, Thomas, Took

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

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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