consent decree modification
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 316 U.S. 556 - Chrysler Corporation v. United States · 1942Most cited · 144 citing opinions
test
the test to be applied in answering this question is whether the change served to effectuate or to thwart the basic purpose of the original consent decree
How often courts cite the case defining “consent decree modification”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “consent decree modification” — 138 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.