credit of the United States
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 294 U.S. 330 - Perry v. United States · 1935Most cited · 638 citing opinions
By virtue of the power to borrow money 'on the credit of the United States,' the Congress is authorized to pledge that credit as an assurance of payment as stipulated, as the highest assurance the government can give, its plighted faith.
How often courts cite the case defining “credit of the United States”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “credit of the United States” — 638 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.