true test
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 279 U.S. 438 - Ex parte Bakelite Corp. · 1929Most cited · 603 citing opinions
constitutional vs. legislative court
The true test lies in the power under which the court was created and in the jurisdiction conferred.
How often courts cite the case defining “true test”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “true test” — 594 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.