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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 475 U.S. 673 - Delaware v. Van Arsdall · 1986Most cited · 11,066 citing opinions
more than being allowed to confront the witnesses physically, more than the right to be tried by live testimony rather than affidavits.
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Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “these words” — 15,925 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1913–1991
- ORIGINAL
that, in order to enforce the rights of a natural child when there was not a solemn recognition, but only acts tending to establish paternity under the Laws of Toro, an action of filiation must be brought, as required by articles 133 and 137 of the Code.
a proportionality principle.