constitutional question
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 272 U.S. 542 - Salinger v. United States · 1926Most cited · 360 citing opinions
a question having sufficient substance to deserve serious consideration, and not one which is so devoid of merit as to be fanciful or frivolous, or which is not open to discussion because settled by prior decisions
How often courts cite the case defining “constitutional question”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “constitutional question” — 360 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.