ground
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 373 U.S. 1 - Sanders v. United States · 1963Most cited · 5,613 citing opinions
simply a sufficient legal basis for granting the relief sought by the applicant.
How often courts cite the case defining “ground”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ground” — 5,600 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.