active circuit judge
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 363 U.S. 685 - United States v. American-Foreign Steamship Corp. · 1960Most cited · 282 citing opinions
An 'active' judge is a judge who has not retired 'from regular active service.
How often courts cite the case defining “active circuit judge”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “active circuit judge” — 279 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.