de facto municipality
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 302 U.S. 614 - Ocean Beach Heights, Inc. v. Brown-Crummer Investment Co. · 1938Most cited · 47 citing opinions
In the absence of a law authorizing the creation of a municipality de jure there can be none de facto.
How often courts cite the case defining “de facto municipality”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “de facto municipality” — 47 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.