ecclesiastical tribunal decisions
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 280 U.S. 1 - Gonzalez v. Roman Catholic Archbishop · 1929Most cited · 487 citing opinions
In the absence of fraud, collusion, or arbitrariness, the decisions of the proper church tribunals on matters purely ecclesiastical, although affecting civil rights, are accepted in litigation before the secular courts as conclusive, because the parties in interest made them so by contract or otherwise.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ecclesiastical tribunal decisions” — 481 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.