prophylactic measure
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 329 U.S. 441 - Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System v. Agnew · 1947Most cited · 258 citing opinions
Section 32 is not concerned, of course, with any showing that the director in question has in fact been derelict in his duties or has in any way breached his fiduciary obligation to the bank. It is a preventive or prophylactic measure.
How often courts cite the case defining “prophylactic measure”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prophylactic measure” — 251 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.