powers vested
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 41 U.S. 539 - Edward Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · 1842Most cited · 341 citing opinions
express powers; any other mode of construction would do violence to the whole instrument, and overturn a whole series of decisions.
How often courts cite the case defining “powers vested”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “powers vested” — 339 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.