actual bias
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 339 U.S. 162 - Dennis v. United States · 1950Most cited · 1,036 citing opinions
Preservation of the opportunity to prove actual bias is a guarantee of a defendant's right to an impartial jury.
How often courts cite the cases defining “actual bias”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “actual bias” — 1,947 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 · 1936–1950
- ORIGINAL
bias in fact