substantial portion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 530 U.S. 914 - Don Stenberg Attorney General of Nebraskas v. Leroy Carhart · 2000Most cited · 827 citing opinions
the child up to the head." He consequently denies the statute's application where the physician introduces into the birth canal a fetal arm or leg or anything less than the entire fetal body.
How often courts cite the cases defining “substantial portion”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “substantial portion” — 857 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 · 2000–2017
a quantitative measurement, we must next decide whether, as a matter of law, a single component can ever constitute a "substantial portion" so as to trigger liability under § 271(f)(1).