evasion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 274 U.S. 403 - Seeman v. Philadelphia Warehouse Co. · 1927Most cited · 232 citing opinions
choice of law
The effect of the qualification is merely to prevent the evasion or avoidance at will of the usury law otherwise applicable, by the parties' entering into the contract or stipulating for its performance at a place which has no normal relation to the transaction and to whose law they would not otherwise be subject.
How often courts cite the case defining “evasion”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “evasion” — 232 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.