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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 299 U.S. 410 - Bengzon v. Secretary of Justice of Philippine Islands · 1937Most cited · 109 citing opinions
of an appropriation bill
An item of an appropriation bill obviously means an item which in itself is a specific appropriation of money, not some general provision of law which happens to be put into an appropriation bill.
How often courts cite the case defining “item”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “item” — 109 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.