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prima facie

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 319 U.S. 423 - Stephan v. United States · 1943Most cited · 169 citing opinions

the very meaning of 'prima facie' is that the Code cannot prevail over the Statutes at Large when the two are inconsistent

How often courts cite the case defining “prima facie”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prima facie” — 166 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.