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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 197 U.S. 442 - Hackfeld Company v. United States · 1905Most cited · 138 citing opinions
meaning 'to fail to perform through carelessness.'
And in the Century Dictionary: '1.
How often courts cite the case defining “Dictionary the word”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Dictionary the word” — 138 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.