low-water mark
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 593 - State of Vermont v. State of New Hampshire · 1933Most cited · 37 citing opinions
The line drawn at the point to which the river recedes at its lowest stage without reference to extreme droughts.
How often courts cite the cases defining “low-water mark”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “low-water mark” — 39 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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 · 1933–1934
the line drawn at the point to which the river recedes at its lowest stage, without reference to, and unaffected by, extreme droughts, but subject to such changes as may hereafter be effected by erosion or accretion