apportion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 297 U.S. 129 - Manhattan General Equipment Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · 1936Most cited · 1,243 citing opinions
To apportion is to 'divide and assign in just proportion,' 'to distribute among two or more a just part or share to each
How often courts cite the case defining “apportion”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “apportion” — 1,240 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.