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error of law

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 336 U.S. 641 - United States v. Jones · 1949Most cited · 148 citing opinions

the claim must be one consistent with the Commission's order fixing the rate, but asserting underpayment by reason of some error of law in its application which would not require the Commission's further consideration for fixing a new rate

How often courts cite the case defining “error of law”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “error of law” — 148 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.