limitation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 72 U.S. 290 - Christmas v. Russell · 1866Most cited · 252 citing opinions
Limitation, as used in such statutes, means a bar to the alleged right of the plaintiff to recover in the action created by or arising out of the lapse of a certain time after the cause of action accrued, as appointed by law.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “limitation” — 251 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.