Legal Process
Intermediate
Standard of Proof
The degree of confidence a decision maker must have before treating a contested fact as legally established.
Why It Matters
Standards of proof allocate error costs between false positives and false negatives, making them central to civil litigation, enforcement, and criminal punishment.
Selected Literature
A short list of directly relevant archive entries.
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Related Cases
1984
Corporate Law
Aronson v. Lewis
473 A.2d 805 (Del. 1984)
Demand futility, derivative litigation, and judicial deference to board decisions.