act
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 183 U.S. 191 - Wilson v. Nelson · 1901Most cited · 124 citing opinions
a thing done or performed; the exercise of power; an effect produced by power exerted;" and it is said, "1 Act ' and ' intention ' may mean the same as ' act,' alone, for act implies, intention, as in the expression ' death by his own act or intention.' " Black's Law Dictionary describes " an act " as follows: " In a more technical sense, it means something done voluntarily by a person, and of such a nature that certain legal consequences attach to it.
How often courts cite the case defining “act”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “act” — 124 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.