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installments certain

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 334 U.S. 602 - United States v. Zazove · 1948Most cited · 252 citing opinions

used in the specialized, technical sense in which it is generally employed in the insurance field—namely, to indicate a guaranty that a designated number of monthly payments shall be forthcoming, where a policy provides an option for equal monthly installments continuing throughout the lifetime of a payee, with the individual installment varying in amount depending on the age of the beneficiary when the policy matures

How often courts cite the case defining “installments certain”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “installments certain” — 252 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.