decision
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 582 - Rogers v. Hill · 1933Most cited · 340 citing opinions
The court's decision of a case is its judgment thereon. Its opinion is a statement of the reasons on which the judgment rests.
How often courts cite the case defining “decision”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “decision” — 340 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.