domestic use
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 376 U.S. 340 - State of Arizona v. State of California · 1964Most cited · 132 citing opinions
The use of water for household, stock municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other like purposes, but shall exclude the generation of electrical power.
How often courts cite the case defining “domestic use”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “domestic use” — 132 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.