original source
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 549 U.S. 457 - Rockwell International Corp. v. United States · 2007Most cited · 834 citing opinions
an individual who has direct and independent knowledge of the information on which the allegations are based and has voluntarily provided the information to the Government before filing an action under this section which is based on the information." The majority's approach requires courts to reevaluate jurisdiction over a "qui tam "action brought by an original source every time the complaint is amended.
How often courts cite the case defining “original source”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “original source” — 834 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.