from any adverse appropriation
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Definitions from Case Law
From 254 U.S. 343 - United States Hall v. Payne · 1920Most cited · 96 citing opinions
necessarily an appropriation adverse to the state, and this gives color to the Secretary's view.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “from any adverse appropriation” — 93 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.