public welfare
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 348 U.S. 26 - Berman v. Parker · 1954Most cited · 2,447 citing opinions
The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive. The values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well-balanced as well as carefully patrolled.
How often courts cite the cases defining “public welfare”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “public welfare” — 3,027 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 · 1952–1954
- ORIGINAL
The public welfare is a broad and inclusive concept. The moral, social, economic, and physical well-being of the community is one part of it; the political well-being, another.