allowances
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 302 U.S. 628 - United States v. Jackson · 1938Most cited · 111 citing opinions
in veterans' legislation, in the Veterans' Bureau, and in Army terminology, has never been considered synonymous with, or inclusive of, automatic insurance; this word ordinarily refers to extra and special items (in addition to regular compensation) such as nurse hire, training pay, and 'travel pay and allowances
How often courts cite the case defining “allowances”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “allowances” — 111 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.