changed conditions doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 294 U.S. 405 - Nashville St Ry v. Walters · 1935Most cited · 386 citing opinions
A statute valid when enacted may become invalid by change in the conditions to which it is applied.
How often courts cite the case defining “changed conditions doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “changed conditions doctrine” — 389 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.