valid contracts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 292 U.S. 571 - Lynch v. United States · 1934Most cited · 2,142 citing opinions
Valid contracts are property, whether the obligor be a private individual, a municipality, a state, or the United States. Rights against the United States arising out of a contract with it are protected by the Fifth Amendment.
How often courts cite the case defining “valid contracts”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “valid contracts” — 2,139 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.