spur track
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 298 U.S. 105 - United States v. Idaho · 1936Most cited · 155 citing opinions
jurisdictional question
[W]hether certain trackage is a 'spur' is a mixed question of fact and law left by Congress to the decision of a court; not to the final determination of either the federal or a state commission.
How often courts cite the case defining “spur track”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “spur track” — 155 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1936–1936
[T]he trackage was constructed and has been maintained for the purpose of serving a single industry; that practically no other industry is served; that this trackage does not invade new territory; that its continued operation or abandonment is of local and not of national concern; that it is therefore a 'spur.