police regulation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 207 U.S. 251 - Ozan Lumber Company v. Union County National Bank of Liberty Indiana · 1907Most cited · 181 citing opinions
patent sales
The plain purpose of the whole statute is to create and enforce a proper police regulation. Its passage showed that the legislature was of opinion that fraud and imposition were frequent in the sale of property of this nature... In order to reach such a transaction and to permit the vendee to show the fraud, the statute was passed.
How the Supreme Court has restated “police regulation”
Each Supreme Court definition of “police regulation,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “police regulation”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “police regulation” — 430 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1873–1931
- ORIGINAL
a portion of the immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a State not surrendered to the General Government, all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves.
The principle that a police regulation, valid when adopted, may become invalid because in its operation it has proved to be confiscatory, carries with it the recognition of the fact that earlier compliance with the regulation does not forfeit the right of protest when the regulation becomes intolerable.