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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 530 U.S. 604 - Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States · 2000Most cited · 410 citing opinions
those to whom the United States had contractual obligations.
How often courts cite the cases defining “public”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “public” — 726 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1981–2000
- 1981·449 U.S. 590 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Associated Dry Goods Corp.[p7]· cited 316×ORIGINAL
the same thing in the two sections.