telephone instrument
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 294 U.S. 384 - Cooney v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 1935Most cited · 180 citing opinions
a transmitter and receiver capable of use in the transmitting and receiving of telephone communications
How often courts cite the case defining “telephone instrument”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “telephone instrument” — 180 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.