present perfected right
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 447 U.S. 352 - Bryant v. Yellen · 1980Most cited · 285 citing opinions
one that had not only been acquired pursuant to state law but as one that had also been exercised by the diversion of water and its actual application to a specific area of land.
How often courts cite the case defining “present perfected right”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “present perfected right” — 285 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.