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for any purpose whatever

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 16 U.S. 159 - Hughes v. The Union Insurance Company · 1818Most cited · 5 citing opinions

liberty to touch for the purpose of taking on board part of the goods insured Violet v. Allnutt, 2 "Taunt." 416.

How often courts cite the case defining “for any purpose whatever”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “for any purpose whatever” — 5 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.