Hawaiian
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 528 U.S. 495 - Rice v. Cayetano · 2000Most cited · 338 citing opinions
any descendant of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands which exercised sovereignty and subsisted in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, and which peoples thereafter have continued to reside in Hawaii." §10 2.
How often courts cite the case defining “Hawaiian”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Hawaiian” — 333 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.