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Definitions from Case Law

From 170 U.S. 593 - Provident Life Trust Co of Philadelphia v. Mercer County Ky · 1898Most cited · 79 citing opinions

clear through the county,—from one end of the county to the other; and that, while the railway enters the north line of the county, and runs within the county limits a distance of nearly 20 miles, it does not touch the south county line, nor come within a nearer distance of it than 2 miles.

How often courts cite the case defining “through”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “through” — 79 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.