structure
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 556 U.S. 938 - Boyle v. United States · 2009Most cited · 825 citing opinions
[t]he way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole" *946 and "[t]he interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity." American Heritage Dictionary 1718 (4th ed. 2000); see also Random House Dictionary of the English Language 1410 (1967) (defining structure to mean, among other things, "the pattern of relationships, as of status or friendship, existing among the members of a group or society").
How often courts cite the case defining “structure”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “structure” — 825 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.