close confinement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 196 U.S. 319 - John Rooney v. State of North Dakota · 1905Most cited · 156 citing opinions
solitary confinement;' and "Re Medley", 134 U. S. 160 , 33 L. ed.
835, 10 Sup.
How often courts cite the case defining “close confinement”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “close confinement” — 156 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.