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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”

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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.