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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 287 U.S. 513 - American Surety Co. v. Marotta · 1933Most cited · 177 citing opinions
In definitive provisions of statutes and other writings, 'include' is frequently, if not generally, used as a word of extension or enlargement rather than as one of limitation or enumeration.
How often courts cite the case defining “include”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “include” — 174 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.