continuing obligation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 310 U.S. 80 - Helvering v. Leonard · 1940Most cited · 141 citing opinions
The existence of wholly contingent obligations, whether contractual or otherwise, is adequate to support the results reached in Douglas v. Willcuts, supra. For in that case it was manifest that at the time of the creation and approval of the trust the divorce court might never exercise its reserved power to revise or alter the decree and the husband might never have to make good on his promise to make up deficiencies in the estimated trust income.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “continuing obligation” — 141 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.