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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 253 U.S. 350 - State of Rhode Island v. Palmer State of New JerseyMost cited · 106 citing opinions
joint and equal authority,' 'running together, having the same authority,' and therefore the grant of concurrent power to the Congress and the states should give to each equal, the same, authority to enforce the Amendment by appropriate legislation.
How often courts cite the cases defining “concurrent”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “concurrent” — 313 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 · 1920–?
- ORIGINAL
joint and equal authority", "running together, having the same *408 authority," and therefore the grant of concurrent power to the Congress and the States should give to each equal,— the same, — authority to enforce the Amendment by appropriate legislation.