migration
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 48 U.S. 283 - George Smith v. William Turner Health-Commissioner of the Port of New York James Norris · 1849Most cited · 410 citing opinions
free persons, but the word "importation" refers to slaves, because free persons cannot be said to be imported.'
How often courts cite the case defining “migration”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “migration” — 407 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.