taking for public use
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 399 - International Paper Co. v. United States · 1931Most cited · 153 citing opinions
it did not make the taking any less a taking for public use by its logically subsequent direction that the power should be delivered to private companies for work deemed more useful than the manufacture of paper for the exigencies of the national security and defence
How often courts cite the case defining “taking for public use”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “taking for public use” — 153 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.