production
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 325 U.S. 679 - Borden Co. v. Borella · 1945Most cited · 287 citing opinions
In an economic sense, production includes all activity directed to increasing the number of scarce economic goods. It is not simply the manual, physical labor involved in changing the form or utility of a tangible article.
How often courts cite the case defining “production”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “production” — 287 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.