Statutory penalty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 233 U.S. 325 - Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Jacob Anderson · 1914Most cited · 105 citing opinions
purpose
It must be remembered that the purpose of this legislation is not primarily to enforce the collection of debts, but to compel the performance of duties which the carrier assumes when it enters upon the discharge of its public functions.
How often courts cite the case defining “Statutory penalty”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Statutory penalty” — 103 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.