procedure
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 460 - Hanna v. Plumer · 1965Most cited · 6,249 citing opinions
Federal Rules
The test must be whether a rule really regulates procedure, the judicial process for enforcing rights and duties recognized by substantive law and for justly administering remedy and redress for disregard or infraction of them.
How often courts cite the cases defining “procedure”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “procedure” — 7,814 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1941–1965
- ORIGINAL
the judicial process for enforcing rights and duties recognized by substantive law and for justly administering remedy and redress for disregard or infraction of them