historic coastline
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 425 U.S. 791 - United States v. Florida · 1976Most cited · 40 citing opinions
the coastline as it existed in 1868, as to be determined by the parties.
How often courts cite the case defining “historic coastline”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “historic coastline” — 40 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.