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insurance contract construction

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 284 U.S. 489 - Bergholm v. Peoria Life Ins. · 1932Most cited · 726 citing opinions

Contracts of insurance, like other contracts, must be construed according to the terms which the parties have used, to be taken and understood, in the absence of ambiguity, in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense

How often courts cite the case defining “insurance contract construction”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “insurance contract construction” — 726 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.