establishment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 324 U.S. 490 - Phillips v. Walling US · 1945Most cited · 1,371 citing opinions
Congress used the word 'establishment' as it is normally used in business and in government—as meaning a distinct physical place of business
How often courts cite the case defining “establishment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “establishment” — 1,362 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.