incident
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 59 U.S. 307 - Ex Parte: in the Matter of William Wells on a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus · 1855Most cited · 164 citing opinions
as a legal term
We use the word incident as a legal term, meaning something appertaining to and necessarily depending upon another, which is termed the principal.
How often courts cite the case defining “incident”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incident” — 164 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.