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Definitions from Case Law

From 504 U.S. 555 - Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · 1992Most cited · 31,563 citing opinions

the standard mandated by our precedents—that the injury be "imminent," "Whitmore v. Arkansas," 495 U.S.

149 , 155, 110 S.Ct.

1717, 1723, 109 L.Ed.2d 135 (1990)—we are at a loss to see how, as a factual matter, the standard can be met by respondents' mere profession of an intent, some day, to return.

How often courts cite the case defining “soon”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “soon” — 31,409 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.