average
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 74 - Beaumont Ry Co v. United States · 1930Most cited · 319 citing opinions
Average' as used in the report manifestly is not intended to refer to an arithmetical calculation, the quotient of a sum divided by the number of its terms. It is rather to be understood as an estimated general mean of the conditions of the several carriers constituting each group, arrived at by the exercise of judgment upon the facts shown by the evidence.
How often courts cite the case defining “average”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “average” — 316 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.