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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 482 U.S. 522 - Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa · 1987Most cited · 802 citing opinions
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How the Supreme Court has restated “exclusive”
Each Supreme Court definition of “exclusive,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “exclusive”
Court decisions citing the 4 opinions that defined “exclusive” — 1,268 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 4 definitions, chronological · 1906–1988
- ORIGINAL
The term 'exclusive' is so plain that little additional light can be gained by resort to the lexicons. If we turn to the Century dictionary we find it defined to mean 'Appertaining to the subject alone; not including, admitting, or pertaining to any other or others; undivided; sole: as, an exclusive right or privilege; exclusive jurisdiction.
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