prudent person
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 403 U.S. 573 - United States v. Harris · 1971Most cited · 3,801 citing opinions
that he is circumspect in the conduct of his affairs, but reveals nothing about his credibility.'
412 F.2d 796 , at 797—798.
How often courts cite the case defining “prudent person”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prudent person” — 3,794 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.