Policy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 501 U.S. 452 - Gregory v. Ashcroft · 1991Most cited · 2,268 citing opinions
a definite course or method of action selected (as by a government, institution, group, or individual) from among alternatives and in the light of given conditions to guide and usu[ally] determine present and future decisions."
Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1754 (1976).
How often courts cite the case defining “Policy”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Policy” — 2,238 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.