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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 135 U.S. 255 - United States v. Chase · 1890Most cited · 385 citing opinions
letters," and insist that even if the general phrase " other publication " is allowed to apply to the word, the sending or mailing a letter by one person to *261 another is a sufficient publication to bring a letter within the statute, as is held tc be the case in an action of slander and libel.
How often courts cite the case defining “writing”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “writing” — 382 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.