depredation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 274 U.S. 277 - Deal v. United States · 1927Most cited · 41 citing opinions
the act of plundering; a robbing; a pillaging
How often courts cite the case defining “depredation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “depredation” — 41 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.