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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 270 U.S. 593 - Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange · 1926Most cited · 1,578 citing opinions

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Transaction' is a word of flexible meaning. It may comprehend a series of many occurrences, depending not so much upon the immediateness of their connection as upon their logical relationship.

How often courts cite the case defining “transaction”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “transaction” — 1,578 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.