prima facie presumption
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 279 U.S. 639 - Western v. Henderson · 1929Most cited · 424 citing opinions
A prima facie presumption casts upon the person against whom it is applied the duty of going forward with his evidence on the particular point to which the presumption relates.
How often courts cite the cases defining “prima facie presumption”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “prima facie presumption” — 696 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 · 1929–1929
- ORIGINAL
A prima facie presumption casts upon the person against whom it is applied the duty of going forward with his evidence on the particular point to which the presumption relates.