practical ownership
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 362 U.S. 628 - Rohr Aircraft Corporation v. County of San Diego · 1960Most cited · 113 citing opinions
The appropriate test would turn on practical ownership of the property rather than the naked legal title. This is the more necessary with respect to public property where the record title may often be in a government agency or department—or, for that matter, in an official of the Government—rather than in the name of the United States.
How often courts cite the case defining “practical ownership”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “practical ownership” — 113 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.