directly affecting
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 464 U.S. 312 - Secretary of the Interior v. California · 1984Most cited · 332 citing opinions
[h]av[ing] a [d]irect, [i]dentifiable [i]mpact on [t]he [c]oastal [z]one."
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How often courts cite the case defining “directly affecting”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “directly affecting” — 325 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.