lawful order
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 168 U.S. 144 - Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alabama Midland Railway Co. · 1897Most cited · 107 citing opinions
an order the Commission has jurisdiction to make.
How often courts cite the cases defining “lawful order”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “lawful order” — 408 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1897–1897
- 1897·167 U.S. 479 - Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.· cited 99×ORIGINAL
an order which the commission has jurisdiction to make.