zoning power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 277 U.S. 183 - Nectow v. City of Cambridge · 1928Most cited · 1,012 citing opinions
The governmental power to interfere by zoning regulations with the general rights of the land owner by restricting the character of his use, is not unlimited, and, other questions aside, such restriction cannot be imposed if it does not bear a substantial relation to the public health, safety, morals, or general welfare.
How often courts cite the case defining “zoning power”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “zoning power” — 1,007 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.