arm's length bargain
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 308 U.S. 295 - Pepper v. Litton · 1939Most cited · 5,321 citing opinions
The essence of the test is whether or not under all the circumstances the transaction carries the earmarks of an arm's length bargain.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “arm's length bargain” — 5,275 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.