Pittsburgh Railways Co. v. Port of Allegheny County Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “all acts of the legislature and of any governmental agency are subordinate to the Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of the land” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and legislative acts are subordinate
• “The legislature can grant the right to take private property for public use [and] may prescribe the kind and character of the security to be given and the manner in which it shall be given.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).