charitable purpose
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 444 U.S. 620 - Village of Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better Environment · 1980Most cited · 1,827 citing opinions
[a]ny charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, or eleemosynary purpose." A "contribution" is defined as "[t]he promise or grant of any money or property of any kind or value, including payments for literature in excess of the fair market value of said literature.
How often courts cite the case defining “charitable purpose”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “charitable purpose” — 1,813 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.