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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 567 U.S. 50 - Williams v. Illinois · 2012Most cited · 153 citing opinions

the pre-Constitution practice of using ""ex parte "examinations as evidence against the accused." " Ibid.

How often courts cite the case defining “That evil”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “That evil” — 153 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.