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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 147 U.S. 494 - Arnold Constable Co v. United States · 1893Most cited · 76 citing opinions

external clothing,' 'external habiliments or array,' and 'a person's outer clothing.' As against this, counsel for the government also refers us to dictionaries in which the term 'wearing apparel' is defined as 'garments worn or made for wearing; dress in general;' and the noun 'wearing,' as 'that which one wears; clothes; garments.' But it is unnecessary to search or compare the dictionaries.

How often courts cite the case defining “apparel”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “apparel” — 76 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.