Continuance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 54 U.S. 54 - Barrow v. Hill · 1851Most cited · 15 citing opinions
discretion
It has been repeatedly decided in this court, that a motion for the continuance of the cause addresses itself to the sound judicial discretion of the court, and its decision, for or against the motion, cannot be assigned as error in this court.
How often courts cite the case defining “Continuance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Continuance” — 15 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.