compensatory damages
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 352 U.S. 128 - Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance v. United States · 1956Most cited · 235 citing opinions
The standard under the Tort Claims Act is 'compensatory,' i.e., 'measured by the pecuniary injuries' resulting from the death.
How often courts cite the case defining “compensatory damages”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “compensatory damages” — 232 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.