dwelling
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 358 U.S. 84 - Federal Housing Administration v. Darlington, Inc. · 1958Most cited · 691 citing opinions
The word 'dwelling' in common parlance means a permanent residence. A person can of course take up permanent residence even in a motel or hotel. But those who come for a night or so have not chosen it as a settled abode. Yet the idea of permanency pervades the concept of 'dwelling.
How often courts cite the case defining “dwelling”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “dwelling” — 682 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.