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every court within the United States

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Definitions from Case Law

From 226 U.S. 551 - Thompson v. Thompson · 1913Most cited · 53 citing opinions

the courts of the District of Columbia, and require those courts to give full faith and credit to the judicial proceedings of the several States when properly authenticated.

How often courts cite the case defining “every court within the United States”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “every court within the United States” — 208 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.