servitude
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 487 U.S. 931 - United States v. Kozminski · 1988Most cited · 616 citing opinions
'[a] condition in which a person lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life'—'slavery'—'the state of being subject to a master.' " 4 Ibid.
How often courts cite the case defining “servitude”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “servitude” — 613 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.