when the alien is released
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 586 U.S. 392 - Nielsen v. Preap · 2019Most cited · 94 citing opinions
? The word "when" can, but does not always, mean "[a]t the time that," American Heritage Dictionary, at 1971, or "just after the moment that," Webster's Third New International Dictionary, at 2602.
How often courts cite the case defining “when the alien is released”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “when the alien is released” — 94 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.