tract
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 33 U.S. 470 - The United States v. Frances Richard · 1834Most cited · 4 citing opinions
land, not timber, and the words 'equivalent quantity' refer to the antecedent word 'tract,' and consequently also mean land.
How often courts cite the case defining “tract”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “tract” — 4 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.