director
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 368 U.S. 403 - Blau v. Lehman · 1962Most cited · 632 citing opinions
any direct or of a corporation or any person performing similar functions with respect to any organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated.' Consequently, Lehman Brothers would be a 'director' of Tide Water, if as petitioner's complaint charged Lehman actually functioned as a director through Thomas, who had been deputized by Lehman to perform a director's duties not for himself but for Lehman.
How often courts cite the case defining “director”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “director” — 626 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.