reenactment doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 278 U.S. 269 - United States v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · 1929Most cited · 879 citing opinions
The rule that reenactment of a statute after it has been construed by officers charged with its enforcement impliedly adopts the construction applies only when the construction is not plainly erroneous and to cases presenting the precise conditions passed on prior to the re-enactment.
How often courts cite the case defining “reenactment doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reenactment doctrine” — 874 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.