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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 285 U.S. 182 - Bowers v. Lawyers Mortgage Co. · 1932Most cited · 149 citing opinions

The element of insurance may not properly be regarded as more than an incident thereof; it certainly is not sufficient to make respondent an 'insurance company' within the meaning of that phrase as it is commonly used and understood.

How often courts cite the case defining “insurance company”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “insurance company” — 149 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.