Force
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 586 U.S. 73 - Stokeling v. United States · 2019Most cited · 173 citing opinions
[p]ower, violence, or pressure directed against a person or thing," Black's Law Dictionary 656 (7th ed. 1999), or "unlawful violence threatened or committed against persons or property," Random House Dictionary of the English Language 748 (2d ed. 1987).
How often courts cite the cases defining “Force”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Force” — 329 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 2014–2019
- ORIGINAL
even its indirect application.