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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”

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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.