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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 301 U.S. 324 - United States v. Belmont · 1937Most cited · 675 citing opinions

an international compact, as this was, is not always a treaty which requires the participation of the Senate. There are many such compacts, of which a protocol, a modus vivendi, a postal convention, and agreements like that now under consideration are illustrations.

How often courts cite the case defining “international compact”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “international compact” — 675 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.