function of the reviewing court
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 344 U.S. 17 - Federal Power Commission v. Idaho Power Co. · 1952Most cited · 578 citing opinions
the guiding principle, violated here, is that the function of the reviewing court ends when an error of law is laid bare. At that point the matter once more goes to the Commission for reconsideration.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “function of the reviewing court” — 578 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.