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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 295 U.S. 301 - Atlantic Coast Line Co v. State of Florida State of Florida · 1935Most cited · 497 citing opinions

Void in such a context is the equivalent of voidable.

How often courts cite the case defining “void”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “void” — 494 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.