Seventh Amendment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 301 U.S. 1 - National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · 1937Most cited · 4,480 citing opinions
The amendment preserves the right which existed under the common law when the amendment was adopted. Thus it has no application to cases where recovery of money damages is an incident to equitable relief even though damages might have been recovered in an action at law. It does not apply where the proceeding is not in the nature of a suit at common law.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Seventh Amendment”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Seventh Amendment” — 5,079 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 · 1916–1937
- ORIGINAL
The first ten Amendments, including, of course, the 7th, are not concerned with state action, and deal only with Federal action. The 7th Amendment applies only to proceedings in courts of the United States, and does not in any manner whatever govern or regulate trials by jury in state courts, or the standards which must be applied concerning the same.
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