equitable estoppel
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 353 U.S. 180 - Automobile Club of Mich. v. Commissioner · 1957Most cited · 1,681 citing opinions
The doctrine of equitable estoppel is not a bar to the correction by the Commissioner of a mistake of law.
How often courts cite the cases defining “equitable estoppel”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “equitable estoppel” — 1,731 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 · 1872–1957
- ORIGINAL
If one person is induced to do an act prejudicial to himself in consequence of the acts or declarations of another, on which he had a right to rely, equity will enjoin the latter from asserting his legal rights against the tenor of such acts or declarations.