voluntary cession
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 314 U.S. 339 - United States v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad · 1941Most cited · 546 citing opinions
a forced abandonment of their ancestral home was not a 'voluntary cession' within the meaning of § 2 of the Act of July 27, 1866.
How often courts cite the case defining “voluntary cession”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “voluntary cession” — 540 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.