lawful
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 244 U.S. 459 - Paine Lumber Co. v. Neal · 1917Most cited · 146 citing opinions
and prevents them from being considered, merely because organized, to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade.
How often courts cite the case defining “lawful”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “lawful” — 146 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.