refuse matter
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 384 U.S. 224 - United States v. Standard Oil Co. · 1966Most cited · 347 citing opinions
The word 'refuse' in § 13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act 'is satisfied by anything which has become waste, however useful it may earlier have been.
How often courts cite the case defining “refuse matter”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “refuse matter” — 344 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.