political offices
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 568 - Twenty Per Cent. Cases · 1871Most cited · 5 citing opinions
Political offices are such as are not immediately connected with the administration of justice, or with the execution of the mandates of a superior, as the President or head of a department.
How often courts cite the case defining “political offices”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “political offices” — 5 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.