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Relevant evidence

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 509 U.S. 579 - Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 1993Most cited · 25,656 citing opinions

that which has "any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence."

Rule 401.

How often courts cite the case defining “Relevant evidence”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Relevant evidence” — 25,563 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.