accident
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 425 U.S. 80 - Geders v. United States · 1976Most cited · 2,149 citing opinions
something over which you have no control the cross-examination would have been right now and you would not have had an opportunity to talk to him.
How often courts cite the cases defining “accident”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “accident” — 2,227 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1810–1976
- ORIGINAL
loss by sea, or "loss "by other unavoidable accident.