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public statute

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 73 U.S. 499 - Gardner v. The Collector · 1867Most cited · 106 citing opinions

a public statute, as distinguished from a private statute. It is one of which the courts take judicial notice, without proof

How often courts cite the case defining “public statute”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “public statute” — 106 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.