detention
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 552 U.S. 214 - Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons · 2008Most cited · 662 citing opinions
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How often courts cite the case defining “detention”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “detention” — 660 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.