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”
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.