ordinary care
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 163 U.S. 353 - Texas Ry Co v. Gentry · 1896Most cited · 216 citing opinions
such care as a person of ordinary prudence would exercise under like circumstances.
How often courts cite the cases defining “ordinary care”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “ordinary care” — 245 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1896–1913
By ordinary care is meant that degree of care and caution that a man of ordinary prudence and ordinary caution would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.
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