Material
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 396 U.S. 375 - Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · 1970Most cited · 3,896 citing opinions
that determination itself indubitably embodies a conclusion that the defect was of such a character that it might have been considered important by a reasonable shareholder who was in the process of deciding how to vote
How often courts cite the case defining “Material”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Material” — 3,880 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.