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”
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.