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Confederate notes

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 75 U.S. 1 - Thorington v. Smith · 1868Most cited · 124 citing opinions

While the war lasted, however, they had a certain contingent value, and were used as money in nearly all the business transactions of many millions of people. They must be regarded, therefore, as a currency, imposed on the community by irresistible force

How often courts cite the case defining “Confederate notes”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Confederate notes” — 124 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.