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excess condemnation

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 281 U.S. 439 - Cincinnati v. Vester · 1930Most cited · 296 citing opinions

the taking of more land than is needed to be occupied by the improvement directly in contemplation

How often courts cite the case defining “excess condemnation”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “excess condemnation” — 296 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.