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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 394 U.S. 741 - Bingler v. Johnson · 1969Most cited · 1,122 citing opinions

the ordinary understanding of 'scholarships' and 'fellowships' as relatively disinterested, 'no-strings' educational grants, with no requirement of any substantial quid pro quo from the recipients

How often courts cite the case defining “scholarship”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “scholarship” — 1,113 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.