on such motion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 517 U.S. 416 - Carlisle v. United States · 1996Most cited · 886 citing opinions
action taken by a court on its own initiative, the limiting phrase "on such motion" in the second sentence has no effect, and a court may act on its own "whether or not" a verdict has been returned.
How often courts cite the case defining “on such motion”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “on such motion” — 886 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.