retirement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 311 U.S. 527 - McClain v. Commissioner · 1941Most cited · 108 citing opinions
of securities
Retirement' aptly describes what occurred in the instant cases. The statute does not use the word in an unusual or artificial sense. In common understanding and according to dictionary definition the word 'retirement' is broader in scope than 'redemption'; is not, as contended, synonymous with the latter, but includes it.
How often courts cite the cases defining “retirement”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “retirement” — 123 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1941–2014
[withdrawal from one's occupation, business, or office." " Id., " at 1489.