chaplaincy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 280 U.S. 1 - Gonzalez v. Roman Catholic Archbishop · 1929Most cited · 487 citing opinions
A chaplaincy in the Roman Catholic Church is an institution founded by an individual for the purpose of celebrating or causing to be celebrated annually a certain number of masses conforming to the will of the founder.
How often courts cite the case defining “chaplaincy”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “chaplaincy” — 481 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.