American rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 386 U.S. 714 - Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · 1967Most cited · 1,813 citing opinions
attorney's fees
the rule here has long been that attorney's fees are not ordinarily recoverable in the absence of a statute or enforceable contract providing therefor
How often courts cite the case defining “American rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “American rule” — 1,801 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.