constant costs
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 392 U.S. 571 - American Commercial Lines, Inc. v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · 1968Most cited · 86 citing opinions
those items of expense which are incurred by a business regardless of the scale of its operations — essentially the equivalent of what is commonly called overhead expenses
How often courts cite the case defining “constant costs”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “constant costs” — 86 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.