compromise
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 84 U.S. 67 - Mason v. United States · 1872Most cited · 33 citing opinions
where the claimant voluntarily enters into a compromise and accepts a smaller sum and executes a discharge in full for the whole claim, he cannot subsequently recover in the Court of Claims for any part of the claim voluntarily relinquished in the compromise.
How often courts cite the case defining “compromise”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “compromise” — 33 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.