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Definitions from Case Law

From 216 U.S. 494 - William Cramp Sons Ship Engine Building Company v. United States · 1910Most cited · 21 citing opinions

An account is something which may be adjusted and liquidated by an arithmetical computation.

How often courts cite the case defining “Account”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Account” — 21 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.