inferior
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 487 U.S. 654 - Morrison v. Olson · 1988Most cited · 1,402 citing opinions
subordinate" is also consistent with what little we know about the evolution of the Appointments Clause.
How often courts cite the case defining “inferior”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “inferior” — 1,359 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.