cardinal rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 437 U.S. 153 - Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · 1978Most cited · 4,290 citing opinions
that "[i]n the absence of some affirmative showing of an intention to repeal, the only permissible justification for a repeal by implication is when the earlier and later statutes are irreconcilable." "Mancari, supra", 417 U.S., at 550, 94 S.Ct., at 2482.
How often courts cite the case defining “cardinal rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “cardinal rule” — 4,257 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.