pending
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 286 U.S. 461 - Porter v. Investors Syndicate · 1932Most cited · 301 citing opinions
the word 'pending' has the significance of 'until,' or while the time is running for bringing such an action
How often courts cite the case defining “pending”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pending” — 301 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.