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casus omissus

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 266 U.S. 548 - Ebert v. Poston · 1925Most cited · 118 citing opinions

A casus omissus does not justify judicial legislation.

How often courts cite the case defining “casus omissus”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “casus omissus” — 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.