Family
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 431 U.S. 494 - Moore v. City of East Cleveland · 1977Most cited · 3,560 citing opinions
a number of individuals related to the nominal head of the household or to the spouse of the nominal head of the household living as a single housekeeping unit in a single dwelling unit, but limited to the following
How often courts cite the case defining “Family”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Family” — 3,542 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.