constitutional courts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 516 - O'Donoghue v. United States · 1933Most cited · 671 citing opinions
Courts of the United States vested generally with the same jurisdiction as that possessed by the inferior federal courts located elsewhere in respect of the cases enumerated in section 2 of article 3; courts capable of receiving the judicial power defined in that article, in which that power is, ipso facto, vested.
How often courts cite the cases defining “constitutional courts”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “constitutional courts” — 1,262 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 · 1929–1933
- ORIGINAL
Those established under the specific power given in section 2 of article 3 are called constitutional courts. They share in the exercise of the judicial power defined in that section, can be invested with no other jurisdiction, and have judges who hold office during good behavior, with no power in Congress to provide otherwise.