removal
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 295 U.S. 396 - United States Kassin v. Mulligan US · 1935Most cited · 150 citing opinions
Removal from one federal district to another under section 1014, R.S. is unlike extradition or interstate rendition, in that the protection owed by a sovereign to those within its territory is not involved.
How often courts cite the cases defining “removal”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “removal” — 296 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1869–1935
- ORIGINAL
Removal, under our peculiar system of State and National jurisdictions, is simply a mode in which the right to resort under certain circumstances to the latter rather than the former is secured to defendants as well as plaintiffs.