fine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 492 U.S. 257 - Browning-Ferris Industries of Vermont, Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc. · 1989Most cited · 1,840 citing opinions
a forfeiture or penalty recoverable in a civil action.
How often courts cite the case defining “fine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fine” — 1,826 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.