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feather bed

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 270 U.S. 402 - Weaver v. Palmer Bros. · 1926Most cited · 223 citing opinions

any bag, case, or covering made of cotton or other textile material, and stuffed or filled with' any filler mentioned in the definition of 'mattress,' or with feathers or feather down.

How often courts cite the case defining “feather bed”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “feather bed” — 223 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.