Tributaries
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 376 U.S. 340 - State of Arizona v. State of California · 1964Most cited · 132 citing opinions
All stream systems the waters of which naturally drain into the mainstream of the Colorado River below Lee Ferry.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Tributaries” — 132 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.