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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 178 U.S. 41 - Knowlton v. Moore · 1900Most cited · 1,292 citing opinions

equal and uniform' in the sense now asserted by the opponents of the tax, the words 'throughout the United States,' are deprived of all real significance, and sustaining the contention must hence lead to a disregard of the elementary canon of construction which requires that effect be given to each word of the Constitution.

How the Supreme Court has restated “uniform”

18951900191019201927 most cited: 178 U.S. 41 - Knowlton v. Moore (1900)
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Each Supreme Court definition of “uniform,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.

How often courts cite the cases defining “uniform”

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Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “uniform” — 2,312 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1895–1927

  1. something and was inserted for some definite purpose.

  2. 1927·273 U.S. 12 - Florida v. Mellon[p8]· cited 300×

    the law shall be uniform in the sense that by its provisions the rule of liability shall be alike in all parts of the United States

    constitutional requirement