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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 372 U.S. 335 - Gideon v. Wainwright · 1963Most cited · 17,372 citing opinions
that in federal courts counsel must be provided for defendants unable to employ counsel unless the right is competently and intelligently waived.
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Each Supreme Court definition of “this,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “this”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “this” — 18,203 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 3 definitions, chronological · 1900–1963
- ORIGINAL
that if the company will pay such proportion semiannually on the amount of the loan, to be ascertained by striking out the payments in warrants, then no default will be incurred, but if not, then it will have made default, and the act of 1870 provides in such case for proceedings to collect the amount due.
will not suffer any lien nor permit the same to be continued.