abandonment certificate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 153 - Colorado v. United States · 1926Most cited · 704 citing opinions
The certificate issues not primarily to protect the railroad, but to protect interstate commerce from undue burdens or discrimination. The Commission by its order removes an obstruction which would otherwise prevent the railroad from performing its federal duty.
How often courts cite the case defining “abandonment certificate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “abandonment certificate” — 695 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.