contingency
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 324 - United States v. Towery · 1939Most cited · 94 citing opinions
what Congress intended by 'the contingency on which the claim is founded' was the contingency on which liability under the policy was bottomed, namely,—permanent disability or death while the policy remained in force
How often courts cite the case defining “contingency”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “contingency” — 94 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.