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compensable harm

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 383 U.S. 53 - Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114 · 1966Most cited · 1,962 citing opinions

harm which may include general injury to reputation, consequent mental suffering, alienation of associates, specific items of pecuniary loss, or whatever form of harm would be recognized by state tort law

How often courts cite the case defining “compensable harm”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “compensable harm” — 1,943 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.