competent authority
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 363 - Grisar v. McDowell · 1867Most cited · 129 citing opinions
the authority of the President, and officers acting under his direction.
How often courts cite the case defining “competent authority”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “competent authority” — 129 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.