trespass ab initio
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 273 U.S. 95 - McGuire v. United States · 1927Most cited · 211 citing opinions
where one enters the premises of another under authority of law, his subsequent misconduct while there taints the entry from the beginning with illegality. This fiction, obviously invoked in support of a policy of penalizing the unauthorized acts of those who had entered under authority of law, has only been applied as a rule of liability in civil actions against them.
How often courts cite the case defining “trespass ab initio”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “trespass ab initio” — 211 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.