abatement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 379 U.S. 306 - Hamm v. City of Rock Hill · 1964Most cited · 562 citing opinions
criminal
the principle takes the more general form of imputing to Congress an intention to avoid inflicting punishment at a time when it can no longer further any legislative purpose, and would be unnecessarily vindictive
How often courts cite the cases defining “abatement”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “abatement” — 637 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1932–1964
- ORIGINAL
The possible abatement—partial reduction or annulment—there referred to depended upon the future decision of the Commissioner.