vehicle
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 283 U.S. 25 - McBoyle v. United States · 1931Most cited · 918 citing opinions
in everyday speech 'vehicle' calls up the picture of a thing moving on land. ... the words 'any other self-propelled vehicle not designed for running on rails' still indicate that a vehicle in the popular sense, that is a vehicle running on land is the theme. It is a vehicle that runs, not something, not commonly called a vehicle, that flies.
How often courts cite the case defining “vehicle”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “vehicle” — 912 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.