Adjacent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 547 U.S. 715 - Rapanos v. United States · 2006Most cited · 610 citing opinions
having a "continuous surface connection" between the wetland and its neighboring creek, "ante," at 742.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Adjacent”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Adjacent” — 629 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 2006–2023
neighboring, whether or not touching; so, for example, a wetland is adjacent to water on the other side of a sand dune.