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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 61 U.S. 135 - Ann Smith v. The Corporation of Washington · 1857Most cited · 81 citing opinions
Hills must be cut down and hollows filled up, or, in other words, the road must be 'graded' or 'reduced to a certain degree of ascent or descent;' which is the proper definition of the verb 'to grade.
How often courts cite the case defining “grade”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “grade” — 81 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.