time
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 4 U.S. 345 - Hollingsworth v. Fry · 1800Most cited · 12 citing opinions
essence of contract
The time of payment is made a substantial, and not a mere formal, circumstance; it enters into the essence of the contract; and, therefore, must be observed.
How often courts cite the case defining “time”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “time” — 12 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.