judicial retirement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 291 U.S. 339 - Booth v. United States · 1934Most cited · 82 citing opinions
By retiring pursuant to the statute a judge does not relinquish his office. The language is that he may retire from regular active service on the bench, not from office.
How often courts cite the case defining “judicial retirement”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “judicial retirement” — 82 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.