potential
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 479 U.S. 462 - City of Pleasant Grove v. United States · 1987Most cited · 103 citing opinions
present and concrete effects, not effects based only on speculation as to what "might" happen at some time in the future.
How often courts cite the case defining “potential”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “potential” — 103 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.