clearly erroneous
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 363 U.S. 278 - Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · 1960Most cited · 5,417 citing opinions
A finding is 'clearly erroneous' when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.
How often courts cite the cases defining “clearly erroneous”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “clearly erroneous” — 6,931 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1949–1960
- ORIGINAL
Such a choice between two permissible views of the weight of evidence is not 'clearly erroneous.