removal petition
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 286 U.S. 510 - Colorado v. Symes · 1932Most cited · 288 citing opinions
federal officer
The burden is upon him who claims the removal plainly to set forth by petition made, signed and unequivocally verified by himself all the facts relating to the occurrence, as he claims them to be, on which the accusation is based. Without such disclosure the court cannot determine whether he is entitled to the immunity.
How often courts cite the case defining “removal petition”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “removal petition” — 288 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.