mitigate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 212 U.S. 516 - Mullan v. United States · 1909Most cited · 68 citing opinions
a sentence
To mitigate a sentence is to reduce or lessen the amount of the penalty or punishment.
How often courts cite the case defining “mitigate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “mitigate” — 68 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.