wetlands
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 474 U.S. 121 - United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc. · 1985Most cited · 1,583 citing opinions
those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
How often courts cite the case defining “wetlands”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “wetlands” — 1,573 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.