peremptory instructions
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 301 U.S. 389 - Aetna Ins Co Kennedy Bogash Springfield Fire Marine Ins Co v. Same Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co Limited · 1937Most cited · 1,010 citing opinions
The established rule is that where plaintiff and defendant respectively request peremptory instructions, and do nothing more, they thereby assume the facts to be undisputed and in effect submit to the trial judge the determination of the inferences properly to be drawn from them.
How often courts cite the case defining “peremptory instructions”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “peremptory instructions” — 1,004 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.