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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 19 U.S. 264 - Cohens v. Virginia · 1821Most cited · 508 citing opinions

all, without exception ; and the States of the Union cannot beexcepted, by implication, because they have ceased to be absolutely sovereign and independent.

How often courts cite the case defining “all cases”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “all cases” — 1,488 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.