personal and present
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 339 U.S. 629 - Sweatt v. Painter · 1950Most cited · 566 citing opinions
constitutional rights
It is fundamental that these cases concern rights which are personal and present.
How often courts cite the case defining “personal and present”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “personal and present” — 566 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.