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implied statutory meaning

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 66 U.S. 55 - United States v. Babbit · 1861Most cited · 102 citing opinions

What is implied in a statute, pleading, contract, or will, is as much a part of it as what is expressed

How often courts cite the case defining “implied statutory meaning”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “implied statutory meaning” — 102 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.