additur
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 293 U.S. 474 - Dimick v. Schiedt · 1935Most cited · 1,723 citing opinions
where the verdict is too small, an increase by the court is a bald addition of something which in no sense can be said to be included in the verdict.
How often courts cite the case defining “additur”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “additur” — 1,720 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.