lottery
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 347 U.S. 284 - Federal Communications Commission v. American Broadcasting Co. · 1954Most cited · 481 citing opinions
A typical 'lottery' is a scheme in which tickets are sold and prizes are awarded among the ticketholders by lot
How often courts cite the case defining “lottery”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “lottery” — 481 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.