common-field
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 66 U.S. 595 - Glasgow v. Hortiz · 1861Most cited · 11 citing opinions
The term common-field is of American invention, and adopted by Congress to designate small tracts of ground of a peculiar shape, usually from one to three arpents in front by forty in depth, used by the occupants of the French villages for the purposes of cultivation, and protected from the inroads of cattle by a common fence.
How often courts cite the case defining “common-field”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “common-field” — 11 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.