Importance
Though Illinois Central is frequently cited as the source for American public trust law, it was several decades before, in Martin v. Waddell’s Lessee, that the Supreme Court ratified the public trust doctrine. Still, Illinois Central has been referred to as “the Lodestar in American Public Trust Law”. As of 2010, the courts of 35 states had cited Illinois Central in their articulation of the public trust doctrine.
Read more about this topic: Illinois Central Railroad V. Illinois
Famous quotes containing the word importance:
“The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the “purpose” be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)