all cases
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”
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.