legislative questions
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 268 U.S. 276 - North Laramie Land Co. v. Hoffman · 1925Most cited · 370 citing opinions
the necessity and expediency of the taking of property for public use 'are legislative questions, no matter who may be charged with their decision, and a hearing thereon is not essential to due process in the sense of the Fourteenth Amendment.
How often courts cite the case defining “legislative questions”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “legislative questions” — 370 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.