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interest on indebtedness

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 308 U.S. 488 - Deputy v. du Pont · 1940Most cited · 4,431 citing opinions

In the business world 'interest on indebtedness' means compensation for the use or forbearance of money.

How often courts cite the case defining “interest on indebtedness”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “interest on indebtedness” — 4,428 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.