current maintenance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 292 U.S. 151 - Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. · 1934Most cited · 560 citing opinions
Depreciation is defined as the expense occasioned by the using up of physical property employed as fixed capital; current maintenance, as the expense occasioned in keeping the physical property in the condition required for continued use during its service life.
How often courts cite the case defining “current maintenance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “current maintenance” — 557 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.