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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago

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Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
166 U.S. 226
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
47 of 47

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago is good law. All 47 flagged citations have been read, and none confirms adverse treatment of its holdings that the Fourteenth Amendment requires just compensation for a state taking and that reasonable public safety regulation does not itself require compensation.
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Later courts continue to apply its compensation rule; Griggs v. Allegheny County applied it to an air easement. Other flagged language concerned different decisions, separate opinions, or arguments the courts did not adopt.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

47 citations to Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Every one of the 47 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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