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reversion

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 309 U.S. 344 - Helvering v. Wood · 1940Most cited · 358 citing opinions

a reversion is the residue left in the grantor on determination of a particular estate

How often courts cite the case defining “reversion”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reversion” — 358 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.