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material variance

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 72 U.S. 689 - Nash v. Towne · 1866Most cited · 216 citing opinions

no variance ought ever to be regarded as material where the allegation and proof substantially correspond

How often courts cite the case defining “material variance”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “material variance” — 215 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.