cause affecting
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 581 - Blyew v. United States · 1871Most cited · 64 citing opinions
persons
Obviously the only parties to such a cause are the government and the persons indicted. They alone can be reached by any judgment that may be pronounced. No judgment can either enlarge or diminish the personal, relative, or property rights of any others than those who are parties.
How often courts cite the case defining “cause affecting”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “cause affecting” — 64 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.