Cases often
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 94 U.S. 76 - Storm v. United States · 1876Most cited · 134 citing opinions
the agreement consists of mutual promises, the one promise being the consideration .for the other;- and it has never been seriously questioned that such an agreement is valid, and that the parties are bound to fulfil their respective stipulations.
How the Supreme Court has restated “Cases often”
Each Supreme Court definition of “Cases often,” 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 “Cases often”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “Cases often” — 296 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1871–1877
- ORIGINAL
the legislature, in granting an act of incorporation for a private purpose, either make the duration of the charter conditional or reserve to the State the power to alter, modify, or repeal the same at pleasure.
such an adjustment is necessary; ana it would arise here were it not that the sureties in the stipulation for costs in the District Court and the sureties in the appeal-bond are the same persons.