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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 36 U.S. 257 - John Briscoe v. President Directors Bank Commonwealth Kentucky · 1837Most cited · 90 citing opinions

paper emitted by a bank, there will be found a most marked adherence to the distinction between an obligation and a bill, as appears in the clause of the original charter of the Bank of England, read by plaintiffs' counsel, 'That all and every bill or bills obligatory and of credit, under the seal of the said corporation, made or given to any person or persons, shall and may, by indorsement thereon, &c., be assigned,'

How often courts cite the case defining “bill”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bill” — 90 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.