rule of procedure
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 326 U.S. 438 - Mississippi Pub Corporation v. Murphree · 1946Most cited · 989 citing opinions
It relates merely to 'the manner and the means by which a right to recover * * * is enforced.' In this sense the rule is a rule of procedure and not of substantive right, and is not subject to the prohibition of the Enabling Act.
How often courts cite the case defining “rule of procedure”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “rule of procedure” — 986 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.