ownership
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 326 U.S. 501 - Marsh v. State of Alabama · 1946Most cited · 2,005 citing opinions
Ownership does not always mean absolute dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.
How often courts cite the case defining “ownership”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ownership” — 1,996 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.