residents of this state
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 172 U.S. 239 - Blake v. McClung · 1898Most cited · 459 citing opinions
those whose residence in Tennessee was such as indicated that their permanent home or habitation was there, without any present intention of removing therefrom, and having the intention, when absent from that State, to return thereto; such residence as appertained to or inhered in citizenship.
How often courts cite the case defining “residents of this state”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “residents of this state” — 453 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.