new rules
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 497 U.S. 227 - Sawyer v. Smith · 1990Most cited · 1,120 citing opinions
those that were not " dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant's conviction became final." Teague, supra, 489 U.S., at 301, 109 S.Ct., at 1070 (plurality opinion).
How often courts cite the case defining “new rules”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “new rules” — 1,117 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.