equitable construction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 55 - Crooks v. Harrelson · 1930Most cited · 1,196 citing opinions
if there be admissible in any statute what is called an equitable construction, certainly such a construction is not admissible in a taxing statute, where you can simply adhere to the words of the statute
How often courts cite the case defining “equitable construction”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “equitable construction” — 1,184 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.