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allocatur

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 67 U.S. 541 - Callan v. May · 1862Most cited · 6 citing opinions

the allocatur of a single Judge certainly cannot enlarge the appellate powers of this Court beyond the limits prescribed by law, and that law does not authorize an appeal from an order directing execution to issue to enforce a judgment.

How often courts cite the case defining “allocatur”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “allocatur” — 6 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.