intermediate state court decision
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 311 U.S. 169 - Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Field · 1940Most cited · 931 citing opinions
An intermediate state court in declaring and applying the state law is acting as an organ of the State and its determination, in the absence of more convincing evidence of what the state law is, should be followed by a federal court in deciding a state question.
How often courts cite the case defining “intermediate state court decision”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intermediate state court decision” — 925 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.