legislative dedication
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 287 U.S. 315 - Reichelderfer v. Quinn · 1932Most cited · 235 citing opinions
By dedicating the lands thus acquired to a particular public use, Congress declared a public policy, but did not purport to deprive itself of the power to change that policy by devoting the lands to other uses
How often courts cite the case defining “legislative dedication”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “legislative dedication” — 235 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.