alien enemies
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 342 U.S. 308 - Guessefeldt v. McGrath · 1952Most cited · 274 citing opinions
including 'all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government'.
How often courts cite the case defining “alien enemies”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “alien enemies” — 274 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.