stale demand
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 64 U.S. 312 - The United States v. James Noe · 1859Most cited · 4 citing opinions
[A demand by one] who has been guilty of an unreasonable delay in fulfilling his part of the engagement, or who has slept for a lengthened period on his rights, and comes forward at last, when circumstances have changed in his favor, to enforce a stale demand.
How often courts cite the case defining “stale demand”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “stale demand” — 4 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.