bonds
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 277 U.S. 1 - Blodgett v. Silberman · 1928Most cited · 445 citing opinions
bonds... are nevertheless in their essence only evidences of debt... their destruction physically will not destroy the debt which they represent. They are representative, and not the thing itself... They are at most choses in action and intangibles.
How often courts cite the case defining “bonds”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bonds” — 442 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.