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Disposal

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 461 U.S. 190 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission · 1983Most cited · 3,106 citing opinions

a "method for the permanent and terminal disposition of high-level nuclear waste .

How often courts cite the case defining “Disposal”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Disposal” — 3,069 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.