loss rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 63 U.S. 96 - Bank of Pittsburgh v. Neal · 1859Most cited · 40 citing opinions
innocent parties
where one of two innocent parties must suffer, through the fraud or negligence of a third party, the loss shall fall upon him who gave the credit.
How often courts cite the case defining “loss rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “loss rule” — 40 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.