Word
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 245 U.S. 418 - Towne v. Eisner · 1918Most cited · 1,065 citing opinions
interpretation
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
How often courts cite the case defining “Word”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Word” — 1,059 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.