bounty law
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 373 - Salt Company v. East Saginaw · 1871Most cited · 53 citing opinions
General encouragements, held out to all persons indiscriminately, to engage in a particular trade or manufacture, whether such encouragement be in the shape of bounties or drawbacks, or other advantage, are always under the legislative control, and may be discontinued at any time.
How often courts cite the case defining “bounty law”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bounty law” — 53 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.