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'''Appellate jurisdiction''' is the power that court has to analyze the agreement of a lower court; the [[Supreme Court]] employs appellate jurisdiction in the astounding majority of the cases to which it listens.
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'''Appellate jurisdiction''' is the power that court has to analyze the agreement of a lower court.
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Nearly all of the cases heard by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] are based on its exercise of appellate jurisdiction over a lower court.  However, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] refuses to hear about 99% of the cases appealed to it, and it only decides about 75 cases a year as of 2007.
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[[category:United States Government]]
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[[category:United States Supreme Court]]
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