coast line
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 364 U.S. 500 - United States v. State of Louisiana Earl Benjamin Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board Harry K. Williams v. Jimmie H. Davis · 1960Most cited · 221 citing opinions
the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters
How often courts cite the cases defining “coast line”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “coast line” — 239 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1960–1969
the term 'coast line' means the modern, ambulatory coastline