continuing taking
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 331 U.S. 745 - United States v. Dickinson · 1947Most cited · 1,092 citing opinions
when the Government chooses not to condemn land but to bring about a taking by a continuing process of physical events, the owner is not required to resort either to piecemeal or to premature litigation to ascertain the just compensation for what is really 'taken.
How often courts cite the case defining “continuing taking”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “continuing taking” — 1,088 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.