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Jurisdictional amount

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 239 U.S. 121 - Glenwood Light Water Company v. Mutual Light Heat & Power Company · 1915Most cited · 366 citing opinions

injunction suit

The rule applicable generally to suits for injunction to restrain a nuisance, a continuing trespass, or the like, viz., that the jurisdictional amount is to be tested by the value of the object to be gained by complainant.

How often courts cite the case defining “Jurisdictional amount”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Jurisdictional amount” — 363 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.