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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 324 U.S. 499 - United States v. Willow River Power Co. · 1945Most cited · 447 citing opinions

not all economic interests are 'property rights'; only those economic advantages are 'rights' which have the law back of them, and only when they are so recognized may courts compel others to forbear from interfering with them or to compensate for their invasion.

How often courts cite the case defining “property rights”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “property rights” — 441 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.