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direct product

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 478 U.S. 647 - Randall v. Loftsgaarden · 1986Most cited · 758 citing opinions

that which is derived from the ownership or possession of the property without the intervention of an independent transaction by the possessor."

Restatement of Restitution § 157, Comment b (1937).

How often courts cite the case defining “direct product”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “direct product” — 743 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.