member
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 347 U.S. 522 - Galvan v. Press · 1954Most cited · 1,438 citing opinions
Communist Party
It is enough that the alien joined the Party, aware that he was joining an organization known as the Communist Party which operates as a distinct and active political organization, and that he did so of his own free will.
How often courts cite the cases defining “member”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “member” — 1,600 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 2 definitions, chronological · 1935–1954
- ORIGINAL
any institution which has subscribed for the stock of a Federal Home Loan Bank (section 2(4), 12 USCA § 1422(4), and that 'any building and loan association, savings and loan association, cooperative bank, homestead association, insurance company, or savings bank,' shall be eligible to become a member of a Federal Home Loan Bank, or a nonmember borrower from such a bank, upon compliance with conditions not important at this time