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cost justification

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 370 U.S. 460 - United States v. Borden Co. · 1962Most cited · 71 citing opinions

class groupings

A balance is struck by the use of classes for cost justification which are composed of members of such selfsameness as to make the averaging of the cost of dealing with the group a valid and reasonable indicium of the cost of dealing with any specific group member.

How often courts cite the case defining “cost justification”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “cost justification” — 71 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.