substantive due process
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 517 U.S. 559 - BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · 1996Most cited · 4,466 citing opinions
that every punitive award unreasonably imposed is unconstitutional; such an award is by definition excessive, since it attaches a penalty to conduct undeserving of punishment.
How often courts cite the case defining “substantive due process”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “substantive due process” — 4,442 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.