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Definitions from Case Law

From 554 U.S. 353 - Giles v. California · 2008Most cited · 798 citing opinions

an absence that the defendant desired, as compared to an absence that the defendant caused." "Post," at 2701-2702 (emphasis added).

How often courts cite the case defining “or may not”

2000201020202030604

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “or may not” — 798 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.