neglect
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 197 U.S. 442 - Hackfeld Company v. United States · 1905Most cited · 138 citing opinions
meaning 'not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone.' In the Standard Dictionary the word is defined as meaning 'to fail to perform through carelessness.'
And in the Century Dictionary: '1.
How often courts cite the case defining “neglect”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “neglect” — 138 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.