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civil use

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 330 U.S. 238 - United States v. Powell · 1947Most cited · 27 citing opinions

destined for use by civilian agencies in agricultural projects and not for use by the armed services to satisfy any of their needs or wants or by any civilian agency which acted as their adjunct or otherwise serviced them in any of their activities

How often courts cite the case defining “civil use”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “civil use” — 27 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.