marginal sea
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 339 U.S. 699 - United States v. State of Louisiana · 1950Most cited · 381 citing opinions
The marginal sea is a national, not a state concern. National interests, national responsibilities, national concerns are involved. The problems of commerce, national defense, relations with other powers, war and peace focus there. National rights must therefore be paramount in that area.
How often courts cite the case defining “marginal sea”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “marginal sea” — 380 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.