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reasonable man

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 213 U.S. 1 - Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company v. Samuel Calhoun · 1909Most cited · 236 citing opinions

standard of duty

The reasonable man, then, to whose ideal behavior we are to look as the standard of duty, will neither neglect what he can forecast as probable, nor waste his anxiety on events that are barely possible. He will order his precaution by the measure of what appears likely in the known course of things.

How often courts cite the case defining “reasonable man”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonable man” — 236 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.