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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”

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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.