legitimate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 463 U.S. 680 - Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · 1983Most cited · 1,697 citing opinions
being exactly as proposed: neither spurious nor false," which does not describe respondents' claims in this case.
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Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “legitimate” — 2,768 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 · 1983–2022
an objective standard of "medicine," and our presumption that the CSA creates a uniform federal law regulating the dispensation of controlled substances, see Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield, *286 490 U.S. 30, 43 (1989), means that this objective standard must be a federal one.
an objective standard of 'medicine' "); Moore, 423 U. S., at 141– 142 (describing Congress' intent "to confine authorized medical practice within accepted limits" (emphasis added)).