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appropriate relief

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 563 U.S. 277 - Sossamon v. Texas · 2011Most cited · 151 citing opinions

monetary damages, our precedents would relieve any doubt.

How often courts cite the cases defining “appropriate relief”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “appropriate relief” — 195 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 · 2011–2020

  1. claims for money damages against Government officials in their individual capacities.