primarily
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 383 U.S. 569 - Malat v. Riddell · 1966Most cited · 945 citing opinions
as used in § 1221(1), 'primarily' means 'of first importance' or 'principally.
How often courts cite the case defining “primarily”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “primarily” — 945 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.