three-mile rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 332 U.S. 19 - United States v. California · 1947Most cited · 443 citing opinions
The three-mile rule is but a recognition of the necessity that a government next to the sea must be able to protect itself from dangers incident to its location. It must have powers of dominion and regulation in the interest of its revenues, its health, and the security of its people from war waged on or too near its coasts.
How often courts cite the case defining “three-mile rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “three-mile rule” — 441 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.