standing
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 368 U.S. 278 - Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction of Orange Cty. · 1961Most cited · 902 citing opinions
The controlling question is whether the appellant 'has sustained or is immediately in danger of sustaining some direct injury as the result of (the statute's) enforcement * * *.
How the Supreme Court has restated “standing”
Each Supreme Court definition of “standing,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “standing”
Court decisions citing the 4 opinions that defined “standing” — 1,689 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 4 definitions, chronological · 1908–1968
- 1908·208 U.S. 192 - Braxton County Court v. West Virginia ex rel. State Tax Commissioners[p2]· cited 35×ORIGINAL
The party raising the question of constitutionality and invoking our jurisdiction must be interested in, and affected adversely by, the act, and the interest must by, the decision of the state court be of a personal, and not of an official, nature.
personal interest
One who would strike down a state statute as obnoxious to the Federal Constitution must show that the alleged unconstitutional feature injures him.
constitutional challenge to state statute
when the particular statutory provision invoked does reflect a legislative purpose to protect a competitive interest, the injured competitor has standing to require compliance with that provision