defect
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 529 U.S. 598 - United States v. Morrison · 2000Most cited · 2,639 citing opinions
that, within the bounds of the rational, Congress, not the courts, must remain primarily responsible for striking the appropriate state/federal balance.
How often courts cite the case defining “defect”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “defect” — 2,628 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.