equal force
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 425 U.S. 536 - Francis v. Henderson · 1976Most cited · 1,449 citing opinions
that petitioner must show not only "cause" for the untimely challenge, but also "actual prejudice" resulting from the failure to comply with the procedural rule.
How often courts cite the case defining “equal force”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “equal force” — 1,448 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.