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Congress

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 302 U.S. 583 - Wright v. United States · 1938Most cited · 192 citing opinions

the entire legislative body consisting of both Houses

How often courts cite the case defining “Congress”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Congress” — 188 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.