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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 280 U.S. 420 - Tagg Bros. & Moorhead v. United States · 1930Most cited · 620 citing opinions

Packers and Stockyards Act

The term 'operator' in section 310 (b) is an apt designation of one who conducts a market agency at a stockyard.

How often courts cite the case defining “operator”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “operator” — 620 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.