abstract constitutional question
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 353 U.S. 364 - Government & Civic Employees Organizing Committee v. Windsor · 1957Most cited · 375 citing opinions
Federal courts will not pass upon constitutional contentions presented in an abstract rather than in a concrete form.
How often courts cite the case defining “abstract constitutional question”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “abstract constitutional question” — 372 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.