signing
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 288 U.S. 170 - George A. Ohl & Co. v. A. L. Smith Iron Works · 1933Most cited · 24 citing opinions
authentication of official document
When an officer authenticates his official act by affixing his initials he does not entirely omit to use his name; he simply abbreviates it; he uses a combination of letters which are part of it. Undoubtedly that method is informal, but we think that it is clearly a method of 'signing.
How often courts cite the case defining “signing”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “signing” — 24 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.