war powers
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 354 U.S. 1 - Reid v. Covert · 1957Most cited · 1,597 citing opinions
authority to prepare defenses and to establish our military forces in defensive posture about the world.
How often courts cite the case defining “war powers”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “war powers” — 1,588 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.