coastline
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 423 U.S. 1 - UNITED STATES v. MAINE Et Al. · 1975Most cited · 29 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 case defining “coastline”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “coastline” — 29 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.