usual common law rules
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 397 U.S. 179 - United States v. W. M. Webb, Inc. · 1970Most cited · 225 citing opinions
Congress' fearfulness of the 'nebulous' nature of the proposed regulation indicates that it used the phrase 'usual common law rules' in a generic sense, to mean the standards developed by the courts through years of adjudication, rather than in a technical sense to mean those standards developed by 'common law' courts as opposed to courts of admiralty.
How often courts cite the case defining “usual common law rules”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “usual common law rules” — 225 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.