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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 69 U.S. 177 - Sheets v. Selden's Lessee · 1864Most cited · 164 citing opinions
The term is not technical, and when the parties have not themselves given to it a definition, it must be construed in its ordinary and general sense, and there can be no doubt that in this sense calendar months are always understood.
How often courts cite the case defining “month”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “month” — 164 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.