punitive
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 468 U.S. 841 - Selective Service System v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group · 1984Most cited · 741 citing opinions
punishment as for a crime.
How often courts cite the case defining “punitive”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “punitive” — 738 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.