Native Hawaiian
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 528 U.S. 495 - Rice v. Cayetano · 2000Most cited · 338 citing opinions
any descendant of not less than one-half part of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778, as defined by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended; provided that the term identically refers to the descendants of such blood quantum of such aboriginal peoples which exercised sovereignty and subsisted in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778 and which peoples thereafter continued to reside in Hawaii."
Ibid.
How often courts cite the case defining “Native Hawaiian”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Native Hawaiian” — 333 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.