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”
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.