navy yard
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 47 U.S. 92 - William Brashear v. John Mason · 1848Most cited · 33 citing opinions
the officers and hands in charge of that part of the public property, or the term 'fortifications' includes the officers and soldiers of the republic engaged in manning them.
How often courts cite the case defining “navy yard”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “navy yard” — 33 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.