national
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 342 U.S. 308 - Guessefeldt v. McGrath · 1952Most cited · 274 citing opinions
including 'a subject, citizen or resident of a foreign country' in Executive Order No. 8389, 2 a regulation 'approved, ratified, and confirmed' by Congress in 1941.
How often courts cite the cases defining “national”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “national” — 346 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1952–1957
persons born in the Islands, and who thereby were nationals of the United States became aliens on July 4, 1946, regardless of permanent residence in the continental United States on that date
Philippine-born persons