pension
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 302 U.S. 74 - Dodge v. Board of Education · 1937Most cited · 640 citing opinions
as gratuity
The presumption is that such a law is not intended to create private contractual or vested rights, but merely declares a policy to be pursued until the Legislature shall ordain otherwise. If, upon a construction of the statute, it is found that the payments are gratuities, involving no agreement of the parties, the grant of them creates no vested right.
How often courts cite the case defining “pension”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pension” — 637 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.