levying war
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 2 U.S. 86 - Republica v. M'Carty · 1781Most cited · 24 citing opinions
Inlisting, or procuring any person to be enlisted, in the service of the enemy, is clearly an act of treason.
How often courts cite the case defining “levying war”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “levying war” — 24 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.