implied obligation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 82 U.S. 500 - Holyoke Company v. Lyman · 1872Most cited · 113 citing opinions
mill dam / fishways
All persons...who may build a dam for mill purposes, on a stream annually frequented by fish, do it under an implied obligation to keep open sufficient sluices and fishways for the passage of fish at the proper seasons, and that the grant of the right to erect a dam, if made by the legislature, is to be construed to be under the same implied condition to keep open the fishways, unless such implication is excluded by an express provision exempting the grantees from such an obligation.
How often courts cite the case defining “implied obligation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “implied obligation” — 112 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.