public improvement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 71 U.S. 270 - Mitchell v. Burlington · 1866Most cited · 30 citing opinions
Plank-roads are as much highways as railroads, and if authorized to be constructed by the legislature, they are public improvements. Money borrowed to aid in the construction of such a work by a municipal corporation is borrowed for a public purpose, and if the road leads from, extends to, or passes through the limits of the corporation furnishing the aid, the bonds of the corporation given as the means of raising the money, are within the power conferred by that provision.
How often courts cite the case defining “public improvement”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “public improvement” — 30 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.