prejudice to the defendant
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 490 U.S. 504 - Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. · 1989Most cited · 1,228 citing opinions
prejudice to a party," as opposed to the prejudicial effect of the revelation of a prior conviction to the witness' own reputation.
How often courts cite the case defining “prejudice to the defendant”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prejudice to the defendant” — 1,218 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.