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colonization

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 59 U.S. 539 - Hudgins v. Kemp · 1855Most cited · 1 citing opinions

in Mexican law

The title to the decree shows its subject to be 'colonization.' The term colonization implies immigration in numbers. The first section speaks of the subjects of such colonization as 'foreigners.

How often courts cite the case defining “colonization”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “colonization” — 21 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.