including
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 313 U.S. 177 - Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · 1941Most cited · 3,066 citing opinions
statutory construction
To attribute to the participial phrase introduced by 'including' a function of limiting the general power granted would be to shrivel a versatile principle to an illustrative application. The word 'including' does not lend itself to such destructive significance.
How often courts cite the cases defining “including”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “including” — 3,569 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 · 1941–1941
- ORIGINAL
not one of all-embracing definition, but connotes simply an illustrative application of the general principle
statutory construction