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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 578 U.S. 374 - Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. v. Manning · 2016Most cited · 82 citing opinions

give force [or] effect to," 1 Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 725 (1927).

How often courts cite the case defining “enforce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “enforce” — 82 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.