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engaged in foreign commerce

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Definitions from Case Law

From 294 U.S. 83 - Detroit International Bridge Co. v. Corporation Tax Appeal Board · 1935Most cited · 41 citing opinions

the bridge company did not transact such business. That business was carried on by the persons and corporations which paid the bridge company tolls for the privilege of using the bridge.

How often courts cite the case defining “engaged in foreign commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “engaged in foreign commerce” — 41 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.