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due process clause

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 324 U.S. 548 - Market St Ry Co v. Railroad Commission of State of California · 1945Most cited · 512 citing opinions

The due process clause has been applied to prevent governmental destruction of existing economic values. It has not and cannot be applied to insure values or to restore values that have been lost by the operation of economic forces.

How often courts cite the case defining “due process clause”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “due process clause” — 508 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.