Free pass
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 244 U.S. 276 - Norfolk Southern Railroad v. Chatman · 1917Most cited · 59 citing opinions
statutory construction
The designation 'free pass,' as applied to transportation issued or given by railroad companies to shippers and caretakers of stock, had acquired a definite and well-known meaning, sanctioned by the decisions of this court... long prior to the enactment of June 29, 1906, and... Congress must be presumed to have used the designation 'free pass' in the sense given to it by this judicial determination.
How often courts cite the case defining “Free pass”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Free pass” — 59 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.