rights of way
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 287 U.S. 178 - Interstate Commerce Commission v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · 1932Most cited · 154 citing opinions
The rights of way there in view are those that involve an investment of the moneys of the carrier, and result in the possession of the land itself, the roadbed on which the tracks are laid. They do not include the privilege of hauling cars for a rental over the roadbed of another.
How often courts cite the case defining “rights of way”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “rights of way” — 154 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.