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burden on interstate commerce

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Definitions from Case Law

From 397 U.S. 137 - Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · 1970Most cited · 4,060 citing opinions

Where the statute regulates even-handedly to effectuate a legitimate local public interest, and its effects on interstate commerce are only incidental, it will be upheld unless the burden imposed on such commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits.

How often courts cite the case defining “burden on interstate commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “burden on interstate commerce” — 4,042 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.