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consent judgment

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 323 U.S. 1 - Pope v. United States · 1944Most cited · 458 citing opinions

It is a judicial function and an exercise of the judicial power to render judgment on consent. A judgment upon consent is 'a judicial act.

How often courts cite the case defining “consent judgment”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “consent judgment” — 455 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.