boundaries
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 363 U.S. 1 - United States v. Louisiana · 1960Most cited · 198 citing opinions
the seaward boundaries of a State or its boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico or any of the Great Lakes as they existed at the time such State became a member of the Union, or as heretofore approved by the Congress, or as extended or confirmed pursuant to section 4 hereof but in no event shall the term 'boundaries' or the term 'lands beneath navigable waters' be interpreted as extending from the coast line more than three geographical miles into the Atlantic
How the Supreme Court has restated “boundaries”
Each Supreme Court definition of “boundaries,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “boundaries”
Court decisions citing the 4 opinions that defined “boundaries” — 318 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 4 definitions, chronological · 1960–1975
- ORIGINAL
the "seaward boundaries of a State or its boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico ...
the seaward boundaries of a State or its boun aries in the Gulf of Mexico or any of the Great Lakes as they existed at the time such State became a member of the Union, or as heretofore approved by the Congress, or as extended or confirmed pursuant to section 4 hereof but in no event shall the term 'boundaries' or the term 'lands beneath navigable waters' be interpreted as extending from the coast line more than three geographical miles into the Atlantic
the seaward boundaries of a State .