confiscatory
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 344 U.S. 298 - American Trucking Ass'ns v. United States Eastern Motor Exp · 1953Most cited · 966 citing opinions
Rate-making represents an order affecting the volume of income; it is said to confiscate property when it prohibits a reasonable return on investment beyond operating and initial costs.
How often courts cite the case defining “confiscatory”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “confiscatory” — 960 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.