take
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 515 U.S. 687 - Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore. · 1995Most cited · 1,200 citing opinions
to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct."
16 U. S. C. § 1532 (19).
How often courts cite the case defining “take”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “take” — 1,188 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.