good will
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 299 U.S. 183 - Old Dearborn Distributing Co. v. Seagram-Distillers Corp. · 1936Most cited · 626 citing opinions
property in a very real sense, injury to which, like injury to any other species of property, is a proper subject for legislation; a valuable contributing aid to business—sometimes the most valuable contributing asset of the producer or distributor of commodities
How often courts cite the case defining “good will”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “good will” — 625 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.