distribution
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 275 U.S. 175 - Mason v. Routzahn · 1927Most cited · 130 citing opinions
for this purpose, the date of payment, not the date of the declaration of the dividend, is the date of distribution
How often courts cite the case defining “distribution”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “distribution” — 130 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.