harm
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 515 U.S. 687 - Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore. · 1995Most cited · 1,200 citing opinions
such indirect means of killing and injuring wildlife as habitat modification, the other terms listed in §3 — "harass," "pursue," "hunt," "shoot," "wound," "kill," "trap," "capture," and "collect" — generally retain independent meanings.
How often courts cite the case defining “harm”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “harm” — 1,188 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.