Device
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 209 U.S. 56 - Armour Packing Company v. United States · 1908Most cited · 1,016 citing opinions
A device need not be necessarily fraudulent; the term includes anything which is a plan or contrivance. Webster defines it to be 'that which is devised or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project,' etc.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Device”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Device” — 1,511 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1908–1969
the exception was created primarily for the purpose of avoiding the semantic incongruity of classifying as drugs (1) certain quack contraptions and (2) basic aids used in the routine operation of a hospital—items characterized more by their purely mechanical nature than by the fact that they are composed of complex chemical compounds or biological substances