Legislative classification
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Definitions from Case Law
From 226 U.S. 157 - Central Lumber Company v. State of South Dakota · 1912Most cited · 323 citing opinions
allowable specificity
If the legislature shares the now prevailing belief as to what is public policy, and finds that a particular instrument of trade war is being used against that policy in certain cases, it may direct its law against what it deems the evil as it actually exists without covering the whole field of possible abuses, and it may do so none the less that the forbidden act does not differ in kind from those that are allowed.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Legislative classification”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Legislative classification” — 408 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1912–1916
- 1916·240 U.S. 518 - St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. State of Arkansas[p11]· cited 88×
We have recognized the impossibility of legislation being all-comprehensive, and that there may be practical groupings of objects which will as a whole fairly present a class of itself, although there may be exceptions in which the evil aimed at is deemed not so flagrant.
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