shore
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 296 U.S. 10 - Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los Angeles · 1935Most cited · 414 citing opinions
common law
the shore 'is confined to the flux and reflux of the sea at ordinary tides.' It is the land 'between ordinary high and low water mark, the land over which the daily tides ebb and flow. When, therefore, the sea, or a bay, is named as a boundary, the line of ordinary high-water mark is always intended where the common law prevails.
How often courts cite the case defining “shore”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “shore” — 414 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.