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Judicial vs. legislative function

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 235 U.S. 402 - Detroit Mackinac Railway Company v. Michigan Railroad Commission · 1914Most cited · 70 citing opinions

rate-making

The distinction between the judicial function of declaring a rate unreasonable and the legislative one of establishing a rate as reasonable.

How often courts cite the case defining “Judicial vs. legislative function”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Judicial vs. legislative function” — 68 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.