sickness
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 504 U.S. 229 - United States v. Burke · 1992Most cited · 1,265 citing opinions
a "[d]iseased condition; illness; [or] ill health," Webster's New International Dictionary 2329-2330 (2d ed. 1950), and I think that its companion must similarly be read to connote injuries to physical (or mental) health.
How often courts cite the case defining “sickness”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sickness” — 1,253 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.