Statutory revision
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 217 U.S. 509 - Holmgren v. United States · 1910Most cited · 462 citing opinions
presumption of no policy change
The courts will not infer that Congress, in revising and consolidating the laws, intended to change their policy, in the absence of a clear expression of such purpose.
How often courts cite the case defining “Statutory revision”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Statutory revision” — 462 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.