Status
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 51 U.S. 82 - Jacob Strader James Gorman and John Armstrong v. Christopher Graham · 1850Most cited · 31 citing opinions
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory; except in so far as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.
How often courts cite the case defining “Status”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Status” — 31 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.