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settlement as compulsion

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 201 U.S. 173 - St Louis Dressed Beef Provision Company v. Maryland Casualty Company · 1906Most cited · 273 citing opinions

insurance indemnity

a sum paid in the prudent settlement of a suit is paid under the compulsion of the suit as truly as if it were paid upon execution.

How often courts cite the case defining “settlement as compulsion”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “settlement as compulsion” — 273 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.