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judicial inquiry

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 405 U.S. 15 - Roudebush v. Hartke · 1972Most cited · 265 citing opinions

A judicial inquiry investigates, declares and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposed already to exist. That is its purpose and end.

How often courts cite the case defining “judicial inquiry”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “judicial inquiry” — 265 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.