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in fieri

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 270 U.S. 611 - Chicago Ry Co v. Schendel Same · 1926Most cited · 652 citing opinions

The proceeding being still in fieri when the Minnesota case was tried and determined, the doctrine of res judicata is not applicable. There must be a final judgment.

How often courts cite the case defining “in fieri”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “in fieri” — 652 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.