special damage
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 578 - Roberts v. Graham · 1867Most cited · 74 citing opinions
Special, as contradistinguished from general damage, is that which is the natural, but not the necessary, consequence of the act complained of.
How often courts cite the case defining “special damage”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “special damage” — 74 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.