purport
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 32 U.S. 132 - United States v. Abel Turner · 1833Most cited · 43 citing opinions
the word 'purport' imports what appears on the face of the instrument.
How often courts cite the case defining “purport”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “purport” — 43 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.