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Whether dower

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 40 U.S. 21 - Susan Mayburry v. John McPherson Brien · 1841Most cited · 18 citing opinions

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How often courts cite the case defining “Whether dower”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Whether dower” — 18 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.