without passing upon any other question
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 196 U.S. 403 - Small v. Rakestraw · 1905Most cited · 17 citing opinions
without passing upon any other question than an absolute proposition of law, and that this proposition is that a vote in another precinct is fatal to a claim of residence.
How often courts cite the case defining “without passing upon any other question”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “without passing upon any other question” — 17 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.