Refuse
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 384 U.S. 224 - United States v. Standard Oil Co. · 1966Most cited · 347 citing opinions
The word 'refuse' includes all foreign substances and pollutants apart from those 'flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state' into the watercourse.
How often courts cite the case defining “Refuse”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Refuse” — 344 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.