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ex-servicemen

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 333 U.S. 411 - Mitchell v. Cohen · 1948Most cited · 85 citing opinions

We are constrained to define the term 'ex-servicemen,' for the purposes of this particular statute, as relating only to those who performed military service on full-time active duty with military pay and allowances, thereby dislocating the fabric of their normal economic and social life.

How often courts cite the case defining “ex-servicemen”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ex-servicemen” — 85 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.