Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. State Highway Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the gas company had purchased easements from the property owners to run pipes and stating that the taking of such a private right-of-way without compensation violates the Fourteenth Amendment
• distinguishing eases in which pipeline companies had agreed, at least implicitly, to modify their lines to accommodate needs of local governments
• “The police power of a state ... is subordinate to constitutional limitations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).