period
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 281 U.S. 489 - United States v. Updike · 1930Most cited · 412 citing opinions
a stated interval of time commonly thought of in terms of years, months and days.
How often courts cite the case defining “period”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “period” — 412 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.