peremptory instruction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 281 U.S. 90 - Gunning v. Cooley · 1930Most cited · 1,874 citing opinions
Where the evidence upon any issue is all on one side or so overwhelmingly on one side as to leave no room to doubt what the fact is, the court should give a peremptory instruction to the jury.
How often courts cite the case defining “peremptory instruction”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “peremptory instruction” — 1,871 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.