lawful combatants
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 317 U.S. 1 - Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · 1942Most cited · 812 citing opinions
Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces.
How often courts cite the case defining “lawful combatants”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “lawful combatants” — 809 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.