repeals by implication
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 286 U.S. 49 - General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. United States · 1932Most cited · 185 citing opinions
Repeals by implication are not favored, and least of all where inveterate usage forbids the implication.
How often courts cite the cases defining “repeals by implication”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “repeals by implication” — 296 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1932–1938
A law is not to be construed as impliedly repealing a prior law unless no other reasonable construction can be applied.