Book
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 226 U.S. 53 - Smith v. Hitchcock · 1912Most cited · 84 citing opinions
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generally a printed publication is a book when its contents are complete in themselves, deal with a single subject, betray no need of continuation, and, perhaps, have an appreciable size.
How often courts cite the case defining “Book”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Book” — 84 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.