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  2. Lists of case law - Wikipedia

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    Lists of case law cover instances of case law, legal decisions in which the law was analyzed to resolve ambiguities for deciding current cases. They are organized ...

  3. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986) Set the standard for what parties must establish in evidence to be granted summary judgement in federal civil cases and how courts should evaluate those motions. Since such motions are extremely common, Anderson has become the most-cited Supreme Court case. Daubert v.

  4. Lists of landmark court decisions - Wikipedia

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    Landmark court decisions, in present-day common law legal systems, establish precedents that determine a significant new legal principle or concept, or otherwise substantially affect the interpretation of existing law. "Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used ...

  5. Common law - Wikipedia

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    The form of reasoning used in common law is known as casuistry or case-based reasoning. The common law, as applied in civil cases (as distinct from criminal cases), was devised as a means of compensating someone for wrongful acts known as torts, including both intentional torts and torts caused by negligence, and as developing the body of law ...

  6. List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Warren Court

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    foreign relations and state property law preventing inheritance by nonresident aliens: Mora v. McNamara: 389 U.S. 934 (1967) denial of certiorari in a case questioning the legality of the Vietnam War: Haynes v. United States: 390 U.S. 85 (1968) Compulsory firearm registration as self-incrimination Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson

  7. Civil law (legal system) - Wikipedia

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    Civil law is sometimes referred to as neo-Roman law, Romano-Germanic law or Continental law. The expression "civil law" is a translation of Latin jus civile, or "citizens' law", which was the late imperial term for its legal system, as opposed to the laws governing conquered peoples (jus gentium); hence, the Justinian Code's title Corpus Juris Civilis.

  8. Case law - Wikipedia

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    Unlike most civil law systems, common law systems follow the doctrine of stare decisis, by which most courts are bound by their own previous decisions in similar cases. According to stare decisis, all lower courts should make decisions consistent with the previous decisions of higher courts. [ 3 ]

  9. List of United States courts of appeals cases - Wikipedia

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    Every year, each of the thirteen United States courts of appeals decides hundreds of cases. Of those, a few are so important that they later become models for decisions of other circuits, and of the United States Supreme Court , while others are noted for being dramatically rejected by the Supreme Court on appeal.