amicus
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 481 U.S. 429 - Burlington Northern Railroad v. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes · 1987Most cited · 468 citing opinions
the Florida East Coast Railway dispute of the early 1960's, see "Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co.," 394 U.S.
369 , 89 S.Ct.
1109, 22 L.Ed.2d 344 (1969); the 1978 dispute between the Norfolk and Western Railway and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, see "Consolidated Rail Corp.
How often courts cite the case defining “amicus”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “amicus” — 456 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.