collateral order
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 337 U.S. 541 - Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · 1949Most cited · 22,577 citing opinions
a small class which finally determine claims of right separable from, and collateral to, rights asserted in the action, too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated
How often courts cite the case defining “collateral order”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “collateral order” — 22,298 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.