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covered by the bond

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Definitions from Case Law

From 327 U.S. 269 - American Surety Co. v. Sampsell · 1946Most cited · 181 citing opinions

The phrase 'covered by the bond' as used in the Westinghouse case did not have the meaning petitioner ascribes to it but had reference rather to the class of creditors for whose benefit the statutory bond was executed.

How often courts cite the case defining “covered by the bond”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “covered by the bond” — 181 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.