legislative ratification
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 619 - Beloit v. Morgan · 1868Most cited · 117 citing opinions
ratification by the legislature is in all respects equivalent to original authority, and cures all defects of power, if such defects existed, and all irregularities in its execution
How often courts cite the case defining “legislative ratification”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “legislative ratification” — 116 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.