postal presumption
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 285 U.S. 427 - Hagner v. United States · 1932Most cited · 2,400 citing opinions
proof that a letter properly directed was placed in a post office creates a presumption that it reached its destination in usual time and was actually received by the person to whom it was addressed
How often courts cite the case defining “postal presumption”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “postal presumption” — 2,397 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.