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Supreme Court· 6/22/1998

Hohn v. United States

Citations

  • 524 U.S. 236
  • 118 S. Ct. 1969
  • 141 L. Ed. 2d 242
  • 1998 U.S. LEXIS 3887

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that decisions of the Supreme Court “remain binding precedent until [it] see[s] fit to reconsider them, regardless of whether subsequent cases have raised doubts about their continuing vitality”
  • stating that the Court is reluctant to adopt a construction making another statutory provision superfluous
  • observing that by including particular language in one section of an act but omitting it in another section of the same act, it is presumed that Congress intended to exclude the language
  • observing that by including particular language in one section of an act but omitting it in another section of the same act, it is presumed that Congress intended to exclude the language
  • noting that the Supreme Court’s “decisions remain binding precedent until [it] see[s] fit to reconsider them ... ”
  • observing that Supreme Court’s “decisions remain binding precedent until [it] see[s] fit to reconsider them.”

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Judges: Kennedy, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, Scalia, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Thomas

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268 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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