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ex delicto

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 285 U.S. 195 - Stevens v. The White City · 1932Most cited · 717 citing opinions

suit by the owner of a tow against her tug to recover for an injury to the tow caused by negligence on the part of the tug is a suit ex delicto and not ex contractu

How often courts cite the case defining “ex delicto”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ex delicto” — 711 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.