unconstitutional condition
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 311 - United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · 1931Most cited · 189 citing opinions
the right to continue the exercise of a privilege granted by the state cannot be made to depend upon the grantee's submission to a condition prescribed by the state which is hostile to the provisions of the federal Constitution
How often courts cite the case defining “unconstitutional condition”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “unconstitutional condition” — 189 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.