float
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 89 - Railroad Company v. Fremont County · 1869Most cited · 22 citing opinions
land grant
The grant was in the nature of a float until this line was permanently fixed.
How often courts cite the case defining “float”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “float” — 22 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.