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Thirteenth Amendment

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Definitions from Case Law

From 271 U.S. 323 - Corrigan v. Buckley · 1926Most cited · 245 citing opinions

denouncing slavery and involuntary servitude, that is, a condition of enforced compulsory service of one to another does not in other matters protect the individual rights of persons of the negro race

How often courts cite the case defining “Thirteenth Amendment”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Thirteenth Amendment” — 245 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.