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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 501 U.S. 78 - Johnson v. Home State Bank · 1991Most cited · 2,589 citing opinions

a mortgage lien in a Chapter 13 plan even after the debtor's personal liability on the debt secured by the property has been discharged in a Chapter 7 liquidation.

How often courts cite the cases defining “can”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “can” — 3,300 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1991–1992

  1. 1992·502 U.S. 437 - Wyoming v. Oklahoma[p62]· cited 744×

    the existence of facilities capable of producing additional quantities of goods that can be sold for a profit at current market prices—in which case the loss of one sale cannot really be "replaced" by the gain of another.