BENNETT Et Al. v. SPEAR Et Al.

1997-03-19 · Supreme Court of the United States · United States

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1984-06-04BLOCK, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, Et Al. v. COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1983-02-22ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA, INC. v. CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1970-03-09BARLOW Et Al. v. COLLINS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICE, Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1970-03-03ASSOCIATION OF DATA PROCESSING SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, INC., Et Al. v. CAMP, COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1953-06-15BARROWS Et Al. v. JACKSONSupreme Court of the United States 1943-02-01SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. CHENERY CORPORATION Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1937-04-12National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United States

21 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

No judgment recorded a departure from this one.

Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.