war
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 532 - Hanger v. Abbott · 1867Most cited · 186 citing opinions
effect on commercial intercourse
War, when duly declared or recognized as such by the war-making power, imports a prohibition to the subjects, or citizens, of all commercial intercourse and correspondence with citizens or persons domiciled in the enemy country
How often courts cite the case defining “war”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “war” — 184 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.