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prospective application

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 392 U.S. 631 - Sam Destefano v. Woods, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. Frank Anthony Carceran · 1968Most cited · 751 citing opinions

retroactivity factors

(a) the purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) the extent of the reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) the effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.

How often courts cite the case defining “prospective application”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prospective application” — 751 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.