fair warning
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 283 U.S. 25 - McBoyle v. United States · 1931Most cited · 918 citing opinions
it is reasonable that a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible the line should be clear.
How often courts cite the case defining “fair warning”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fair warning” — 912 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.