dormant commerce power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 27 U.S. 245 - Thompson Willson v. The Black Bird Creek Marsh Company · 1829Most cited · 301 citing opinions
state interference with navigable creeks
We do not think that the act empowering the Black Bird Creek Marsh Company to place a dam across the creek, can, under all the circumstances of the case, be considered as repugnant to the power to regulate commerce in its dormant state, or as being in conflict with any law passed on the subject.
How often courts cite the case defining “dormant commerce power”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “dormant commerce power” — 299 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.