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sold or disposed of

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 99 U.S. 48 - Platt v. Union Pacific Railroad · 1878Most cited · 295 citing opinions

something more than 'sold,' and can only mean a mortgage of the lands, I do not conceive to be just, but rather as sticking in the bark.

How often courts cite the case defining “sold or disposed of”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sold or disposed of” — 295 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.