basis in fact
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 346 U.S. 389 - Dickinson v. United States · 1953Most cited · 1,738 citing opinions
selective service classification
The question of jurisdiction of the local board is reached only if there is no basis in fact for the classification which it gave the registrant.
How often courts cite the case defining “basis in fact”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “basis in fact” — 1,735 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.