Appropriations Clause
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 52 U.S. 272 - Reeside v. Walker · 1850Most cited · 153 citing opinions
It is a well-known constitutional provision, that no money can be taken or drawn from the Treasury except under an appropriation by Congress. ... However much money may be in the Treasury at any one time, not a dollar of it can be used in the payment of any thing not thus previously sanctioned. Any other course would give to the fiscal officers a most dangerous discretion.
How often courts cite the case defining “Appropriations Clause”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Appropriations Clause” — 153 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.