Equivalent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 294 U.S. 330 - Perry v. United States · 1935Most cited · 638 citing opinions
gold clause obligation
equivalent' cannot mean more than the amount of money which the promised gold coin would be worth to the bondholder for the purposes for which it could legally be used. That equivalence or worth could not properly be ascertained save in the light of the domestic and restricted market which the Congress had lawfully established.
How the Supreme Court has restated “Equivalent”
Each Supreme Court definition of “Equivalent,” 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 “Equivalent”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “Equivalent” — 727 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 · 1868–2020
- ORIGINAL
This term 'equivalent,' when speaking of machines, has a certain definite meaning; but when used with regard to the chemical action of such fluids as can be discovered only by experiment, it only means equally good.
chemical patent
Cite as: 590 U. S. 165 (2020) 201 Alito, J., dissenting "equal" in some respect, and "functional" signifes a relation- ship to a function.