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prejudice to the defendant

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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”

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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.