action on the case
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 65 U.S. 407 - Adler v. Fenton · 1860Most cited · 116 citing opinions
To enable the plaintiffs to sustain an action on the case like the present, it must be shown that the defendants have done some wrong, that is, have violated some right of theirs, and that damage has resulted as a direct and proximate consequence from the commission of that wrong.
How often courts cite the case defining “action on the case”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “action on the case” — 115 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.