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nonintercourse rule

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 271 U.S. 272 - Sutherland v. Mayer · 1926Most cited · 79 citing opinions

The prohibition against doing anything for the benefit of an enemy contemplates his benefit during the war and not the possible advantage he may gain when peace comes.

How often courts cite the case defining “nonintercourse rule”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “nonintercourse rule” — 79 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.