standing to sue
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
Respondents, to have standing in court, must show an injury or threat to a particular right of their own, as distinguished from the public's interest in the administration of the law.
How often courts cite the case defining “standing to sue”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “standing to sue” — 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.