drainage district
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 239 U.S. 478 - Myles Salt Company v. Board of Commissioners of the Iberia & St Mary Drainage District · 1916Most cited · 327 citing opinions
A drainage district has the special purpose of the improvement of particular property, and when it is so formed to include property which is not and cannot be benefited directly or indirectly, including it only that it may pay for the benefit to other property, there is an abuse of power and an act of confiscation.
How often courts cite the case defining “drainage district”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “drainage district” — 323 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.