Slaughter-House Cases
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Syllabus
No syllabus is shown. Volume 83 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 XIII, Section 1suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt13.S1.1, Amdt13.S1.2, Amdt13.S1.3, Amdt13.S1.3.1, pp. 2033, 2035.
- Amendment XIV, Section 1suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2, Amdt14.S1.2.1, Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.6.2.1, Amdt14.S1.6.2.2, Amdt14.S1.8.1.2, Amdt14.S1.8.1.8, Amdt14.S1.8.2, Amdt14.S1.8.2.1, Amdt14.S1.8.8.4, Amdt14.S1.8.9, Amdt14.S1.8.9.1, pp. 2067, 2068, 2074, 2147, 2149, 2150, 2211, 2220, 2284.
- Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtIV.S2.C1.1, ArtIV.S2.C1.3, ArtIV.S2.C1.4, pp. 1204, 1207, 1208.
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 “Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873)”:
- cited on 16 pages
- named in the title of essay Amdt14.S1.2.1