citizens
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 75 U.S. 168 - Paul v. Virginia · 1868Most cited · 1,098 citing opinions
The term citizens as there used applies only to natural persons, members of the body politic, owing allegiance to the State, not to artificial persons created by the legislature, and possessing only the attributes which the legislature has prescribed.
How often courts cite the case defining “citizens”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “citizens” — 1,086 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.