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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 121 U.S. 1 - Bain Jr · 1887Most cited · 1,797 citing opinions
a change made in the indictment, after it was found, by striking out some words in it, and then proceeding to try the prisoner upon the indictment as thus changed.
How often courts cite the case defining “second”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “second” — 1,793 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.