Illinois
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 147 U.S. 1 - State of Iowa v. State of Illinois · 1893Most cited · 196 citing opinions
follows: Starting in the middle of Lake Michigan, at north latitude 42 degrees and 30 minutes, 'thence west to the middle of the Mississippi river, and thence down along the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ohio river;' and that the constitutions of Illinois of 1818, 1848, and 1870 defined the boundaries in the same way.
How often courts cite the case defining “Illinois”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Illinois” — 194 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.