incorporation by reference
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 33 - Engel v. Davenport · 1926Most cited · 667 citing opinions
The adoption of an earlier statute by reference makes it as much a part of the later act as though it had been incorporated at full length. It brings into the later act 'all that is fairly covered by the reference,' that is to say, all the provisions of the former act which, from the nature of the subject-matter, are applicable to the later act.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incorporation by reference” — 667 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.