discretion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 347 U.S. 260 - United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · 1954Most cited · 2,927 citing opinions
if the word 'discretion' means anything in a statutory or administrative grant of power, it means that the recipient must exercise his authority according to his own understanding and conscience
How often courts cite the case defining “discretion”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “discretion” — 2,923 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.