firm
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 384 U.S. 257 - United States v. Cook · 1966Most cited · 134 citing opinions
The term 'firm' in 18 U.S.C. § 660 'is certainly broad enough in common usage to embrace individuals acting as common carriers,' including individual proprietorships.
How often courts cite the case defining “firm”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “firm” — 134 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.