week
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 29 U.S. 349 - Ronkendorff v. Taylor's Lessee · 1830Most cited · 80 citing opinions
definite period
A week is a definite period of time, commencing on Sunday and ending on Saturday.
How often courts cite the cases defining “week”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “week” — 134 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1830–1903
that series of days called a week commencing Sunday and ending Saturday, and that under this construction there was only one publication in the last week.