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arbitrary

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 303 U.S. 532 - Adams v. Nagle · 1938Most cited · 262 citing opinions

executive action

It would be arbitrary, in the proper sense of the term, for an official to act in the teeth of a statute or stubbornly to refuse to act at all where a statute commands action, but where he essays to exercise the jurisdiction conferred upon him, though his errors may be subject to subsequent correction, they cannot be enjoined as an arbitrary exercise of his authority.

How often courts cite the case defining “arbitrary”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “arbitrary” — 262 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.