substantial compliance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 75 U.S. 513 - Carpenter v. Dexter · 1869Most cited · 62 citing opinions
deed acknowledgment
It is the policy of the law to uphold certificates when substance is found, and not to suffer conveyances, or the proof of them, to be defeated by technical or unsubstantial objections.
How often courts cite the case defining “substantial compliance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “substantial compliance” — 62 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.