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permissive appeal

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 311 U.S. 579 - Reconstruction Finance Corporation v. Prudence Securities Advisory Group · 1941Most cited · 221 citing opinions

permissive appeals which may be had not as of right but only in the discretion of the Circuit Court of Appeals

How often courts cite the case defining “permissive appeal”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “permissive appeal” — 218 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.