certificate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 329 U.S. 424 - United States v. Seatrain Lines, Inc. · 1947Most cited · 193 citing opinions
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The certificate, when finally granted, and the time fixed for rehearing it has passed, is not subject to revocation in whole or in part except as specifically authorized by Congress.
How often courts cite the cases defining “certificate”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “certificate” — 219 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1870–1947
- ORIGINAL
The office of the certificate, as it respects the Federal question, is to make more certain and specific what is too general and indefinite in the record, but is incompetent to originate the question within the true construction of the 25th section.
office of, under 25th section