essential governmental functions
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 304 U.S. 405 - Helvering v. Gerhardt · 1938Most cited · 466 citing opinions
ownership and operation of water plants, power and transportation systems
How often courts cite the case defining “essential governmental functions”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “essential governmental functions” — 466 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.