litigable controversy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 310 U.S. 113 - Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · 1940Most cited · 1,299 citing opinions
a wage determination by the Secretary contemplates no controversy between parties and no fixing of private rights; the process of arriving at a wage determination contains no semblance of these elements which go to make up a litigable controversy as our law knows the concept.
How often courts cite the case defining “litigable controversy”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “litigable controversy” — 1,299 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.