expatriation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 307 U.S. 325 - Perkins v. Elg · 1939Most cited · 636 citing opinions
Expatriation is the voluntary renunciation or abandonment of nationality and allegiance.
How often courts cite the cases defining “expatriation”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “expatriation” — 913 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 · 1939–1958
no conduct results in expatriation unless the conduct is engaged in voluntarily