tort
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 542 U.S. 692 - Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain · 2004Most cited · 1,696 citing opinions
the law of prize), and the statute's mixture of terms expansive ("all suits"), see, "e.
How often courts cite the case defining “tort”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “tort” — 1,686 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.