a new rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 494 U.S. 484 - Saffle v. Parks · 1990Most cited · 1,798 citing opinions
a rule that "breaks new ground," "imposes a new obligation on the States or the Federal Government," or was not " dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant's conviction became final." Teague, supra, 489 U.S., at 301, 109 S.Ct., at 1070 (plurality opinion) (emphasis in original).
How often courts cite the case defining “a new rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “a new rule” — 1,795 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.