substantial
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 511 U.S. 1 - Victor v. Nebraska · 1994Most cited · 2,357 citing opinions
not seeming or imaginary"; on the other, it means "that specified to a large degree."
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, "supra," at 2280.
How often courts cite the cases defining “substantial”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “substantial” — 2,518 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1994–2022
of ample or considerable amount, quantity, or size." Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 1897 (2d ed. 2001).