essential governmental duties
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 303 U.S. 218 - Helvering v. Therrell · 1938Most cited · 99 citing opinions
those duties which the framers intended each member of the Union would assume in order adequately to function under the form of government guaranteed by the Constitution
How often courts cite the case defining “essential governmental duties”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “essential governmental duties” — 99 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.