enterprise
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 452 U.S. 576 - United States v. Turkette · 1981Most cited · 5,765 citing opinions
including "any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity." § 1961(4).
How the Supreme Court has restated “enterprise”
Each Supreme Court definition of “enterprise,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “enterprise”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “enterprise” — 6,611 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 3 definitions, chronological · 1896–1981
- ORIGINAL
an undertaking of hazard, an arduous attempt." Judge Maxey in United States v. Ybanez, 53 Fed.
the related activities performed (either through unified operation or common control) by any person or persons for a common business purpose, and includes all such activities whether performed in one or more establishments or by one or more corporate or other organizational units .