prudent-man test
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 390 U.S. 599 - United States v. Coleman · 1968Most cited · 457 citing opinions
a person of ordinary prudence would be justified in the further expenditure of his labor and means, with a reasonable prospect of success, in developing a valuable mine
How often courts cite the case defining “prudent-man test”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prudent-man test” — 457 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.