civil action
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 490 U.S. 877 - Sullivan v. Hudson · 1989Most cited · 1,204 citing opinions
remand proceedings before the Social Security Administration because a formal complaint remains pending in court and depends on the outcome of the administrative proceeding for its resolution.
How often courts cite the cases defining “civil action”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “civil action” — 1,385 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 2 definitions, chronological · 1873–1989
- ORIGINAL
in the eleventh section, as to the District Courts, the answer is, that they refer to the cases mentioned in the ninth section, suits by an alien, suits at common law for $100, suits against consuls