governmental
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 314 U.S. 95 - Federal Land Bank of St. Paul v. Bismarck Lumber Co. · 1941Most cited · 518 citing opinions
federal instrumentality activities
any constitutional exercise of its delegated powers is governmental... when Congress constitutionally creates a corporation through which the federal government lawfully acts, the activities of such corporation are governmental
How often courts cite the case defining “governmental”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “governmental” — 516 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.