gratuities
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 292 U.S. 571 - Lynch v. United States · 1934Most cited · 2,142 citing opinions
Pensions, compensation allowances, and privileges are gratuities. They involve no agreement of parties; and the grant of them creates no vested right. The benefits conferred by gratuities may be redistributed or withdrawn at any time in the discretion of Congress.
How often courts cite the case defining “gratuities”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “gratuities” — 2,139 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.