special
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 548 U.S. 557 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld · 2006Most cited · 613 citing opinions
anything in contradistinction to "regular," it would be in the sense of "special" as "relating to a single thing," and "regular" as "uniform in course, practice, or occurrence."
Webster's Third New International Dictionary 2186, 1913.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “special” — 613 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.