sound discretion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 531 - Langnes v. Green · 1931Most cited · 1,710 citing opinions
a discretion exercised not arbitrarily or willfully, but with regard to what is right and equitable under the circumstances and the law, and directed by the reason and conscience of the judge to a just result
How often courts cite the case defining “sound discretion”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sound discretion” — 1,704 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.