in commerce
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 317 U.S. 564 - Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · 1943Most cited · 1,499 citing opinions
Fair Labor Standards Act · construing 29 U.S.C. § 201 · Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
if the halt in the movement of the goods is a convenient intermediate step in the process of getting them to their final destinations, they remain 'in commerce' until they reach those points. Then there is a practical continuity of movement of the goods until they reach the customers for whom they are intended. That is sufficient. Any other test would allow formalities to conceal the continuous nature of the interstate transit which constitutes commerce.
How often courts cite the case defining “in commerce”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “in commerce” — 1,498 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.