Cohens v. Virginia
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Syllabus
No syllabus is shown. Volume 19 is one of the early reports (before volume 91), whose headnotes are the reporter's own.
Provisions
The Constitution Annotated's essays on these provisions cite this case.
- Amendment XIsuggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt11.2, Amdt11.3, Amdt11.4, Amdt11.5, Amdt11.5.1, pp. 1994, 1995, 1998.
- Article III, Section 2, Clause 1suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtIII.S2.C1.1, ArtIII.S2.C1.11.1, ArtIII.S2.C1.11.2, ArtIII.S2.C1.11.3, ArtIII.S2.C1.11.4, ArtIII.S2.C1.13.4, ArtIII.S2.C1.14.3, ArtIII.S2.C1.14.4, ArtIII.S2.C1.15.2, ArtIII.S2.C1.15.3, ArtIII.S2.C1.2, ArtIII.S2.C1.3, ArtIII.S2.C1.3.1, pp. 961, 966, 967, 1104, 1107, 1108, 1109, 1138, 1144, 1147.
Why it is here
The library's first set of cases is chosen by fixed rules from the Constitution Annotated (2022), which cites this case as “Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 264 (1821)”:
- most cited in essay topic ArtIII.S2.C1.11 (4 pages)
- cited on 18 pages