navigable streams
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 272 - Railroad Company v. Schurmeir · 1868Most cited · 388 citing opinions
Congress, in making a distinction between streams navigable and those not navigable, intended to provide that the common law rules of riparian ownership should apply to lands bordering on the latter, but that the title to lands bordering on navigable streams should stop at the stream, and that all such streams should be deemed to be, and remain public highways.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “navigable streams” — 388 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.