actionable wrong
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 377 U.S. 13 - Simpson v. United Oil Company of California · 1964Most cited · 916 citing opinions
There is actionable wrong whenever the restraint of trade or monopolistic practice has an impact on the market; and it matters not that the complainant may be only one merchant
How often courts cite the cases defining “actionable wrong”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “actionable wrong” — 1,412 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 · 1950–1964
- ORIGINAL
a failure of equipment to perform as required by the Safety Appliance Act is in itself an actionable wrong
under the Federal Safety Appliance Act (now 49 U.S.C. § 20301 et seq.) · construing 49 U.S.C. § 20301 · Safety Appliance Act