plain statutory provision
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 63 U.S. 185 - Maxwell v. Moore · 1859Most cited · 24 citing opinions
where the Legislature makes a plain provision, without making any exception, the courts of justice can make none, as it would be legislating to do so
How often courts cite the case defining “plain statutory provision”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “plain statutory provision” — 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.