local law
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 227 U.S. 51 - Gray v. Taylor · 1913Most cited · 46 citing opinions
primarily, at least, a law that in fact, if not in form, is directed only to a specific spot.
How often courts cite the case defining “local law”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “local law” — 46 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.