Adequate cause
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 416 U.S. 802 - Allee v. Medrano · 1974Most cited · 1,130 citing opinions
(1) actual obstruction of public or private passways causing unreasonable interference, (2) force or violence, or threat thereof, actually committed by any person, or the aiding and abetting of such conduct, or, (3) probable cause to believe in good faith that a criminal law of the State of Texas has been violated, other than the ones struck down in the remainder of the decree.
How often courts cite the case defining “Adequate cause”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Adequate cause” — 1,130 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.