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deductible loss

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 274 U.S. 398 - United States v. S S White Dental Mfg Co of Pennsylvania · 1927Most cited · 1,123 citing opinions

Losses which are fixed by identifiable events, such as the sale of property, or caused by its destruction or physical injury, or, in the case of debts, by the occurrence of such events as prevent their collection.

How often courts cite the case defining “deductible loss”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “deductible loss” — 1,123 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.