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grounds for contesting an election

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 531 U.S. 98 - George Bush v. Albert Gore · 2000Most cited · 825 citing opinions

the "rejection of a number of legal votes sufficient to place in doubt the result of the election."

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How often courts cite the case defining “grounds for contesting an election”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “grounds for contesting an election” — 816 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.