nolle prosequi
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 386 U.S. 213 - Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · 1967Most cited · 3,171 citing opinions
declaring 'that he will not, at that time, prosecute the suit further. Its effect is to put the defendant without day, that is, he is discharged and permitted to go whithersoever he will, without entering into a recognizance to appear at any other time.
How often courts cite the case defining “nolle prosequi”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “nolle prosequi” — 3,171 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.