Appropriate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 446 U.S. 156 - City of Rome v. United States · 1980Most cited · 802 citing opinions
of preventing such constitutional violations.
How the Supreme Court has restated “Appropriate”
Each Supreme Court definition of “Appropriate,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Appropriate”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Appropriate” — 834 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 3 definitions, chronological · 1980–2020
of exacting state compliance with the Civil War Amendments.
[s]pecially fitted or suitable, proper." 1 Oxford English Dictionary, at 586; see also Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 57 (10th ed. 1996) ("especially suitable or compatible").