acquire
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 415 U.S. 814 - Huddleston v. United States · 1974Most cited · 898 citing opinions
simply 'to come into possession, control, or power of disposal of.'
Webster's New International Dictionary (3d ed., 1966, unabridged); United States v. Laisure, 460 F.2d 709 , 712 n. 3 (CA5 1972).
How often courts cite the case defining “acquire”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “acquire” — 898 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.