error
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 196 - The Grace Girdler · 1868Most cited · 70 citing opinions
vs. fault
In the eye of the law the former does not rise to the grade of the latter, and is always venial
How often courts cite the case defining “error”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “error” — 70 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.