excessive profits
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 334 U.S. 742 - Lichter v. United States · 1948Most cited · 1,155 citing opinions
any amount of a contract or subcontract price which is found as a result of renegotiation to represent excessive profits." In the light of the existing administrative practices this at least expressed a congressional satisfaction with the existing specificity of the Act.
How often courts cite the case defining “excessive profits”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “excessive profits” — 1,154 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.