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constitutionally assigned duties

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From 487 U.S. 654 - Morrison v. Olson · 1988Most cited · 1,402 citing opinions

complete" control over all exercises of the judicial power—or, as the plurality opinion said in "Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.," 458 U.S.

50 , 58-59, 102 S.Ct.

2858, 2865, 73 L.Ed.2d 598 (1982): "The inexorable command of [Article III] is clear and definite: The judicial power of the United States must be exercised by courts having the attributes prescribed in Art. III." We should say here that the President's consti

How often courts cite the case defining “constitutionally assigned duties”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “constitutionally assigned duties” — 1,359 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.