unless the context indicates otherwise
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 506 U.S. 194 - Rowland v. California Men's Colony, Unit II Men's Advisory Council · 1993Most cited · 1,140 citing opinions
however, it cannot mean "unless there are sound policy reasons for concluding otherwise.
How often courts cite the case defining “unless the context indicates otherwise”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “unless the context indicates otherwise” — 1,130 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.