kill
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
actions or effects that do not require direct applications of force.
How often courts cite the case defining “kill”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “kill” — 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.