negative implication
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 278 U.S. 282 - Botany Worsted Mills v. United States · 1929Most cited · 1,533 citing opinions
When a statute limits a thing to be done in a particular mode, it includes the negative of any other mode.
How often courts cite the case defining “negative implication”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “negative implication” — 1,533 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.