loiter
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 527 U.S. 41 - City of Chicago v. Morales · 1999Most cited · 2,315 citing opinions
remaining in one place "with no apparent purpose," it is also clear that it does not prohibit any form of conduct that is apparently intended to convey a message.
How often courts cite the case defining “loiter”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “loiter” — 2,302 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1999–1999
to remain in any one place with no apparent purpose.