defence
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 554 U.S. 191 - Rothgery v. Gillespie County · 2008Most cited · 441 citing opinions
defense at trial, not defense in relation to other objectives that may be important to the accused.
How often courts cite the case defining “defence”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “defence” — 441 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.