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contract without fixed price

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 270 U.S. 124 - United States v. Swift & Co. · 1926Most cited · 80 citing opinions

Under ordinary conditions, a valid agreement can be made for purchase and sale without the fixing of a specific price. In such a case a reasonable price is presumed to have been intended.

How often courts cite the case defining “contract without fixed price”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “contract without fixed price” — 80 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.