jurisdictional defect
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 311 U.S. 579 - Reconstruction Finance Corporation v. Prudence Securities Advisory Group · 1941Most cited · 221 citing opinions
The defect is not jurisdictional in the sense that it deprives the court of power to allow the appeal. The court has discretion, where the scope of review is not affected, to disregard such an irregularity in the interests of substantial justice.
How often courts cite the case defining “jurisdictional defect”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “jurisdictional defect” — 218 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.