Often the situation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 397 U.S. 254 - Goldberg v. Kelly · 1970Most cited · 11,942 citing opinions
the party 'owing' the money stops paying it and justifies his conduct by arguing that the recipient is not legally entitled to payment.
How often courts cite the case defining “Often the situation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Often the situation” — 11,904 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.