interstate or foreign commerce
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 335 U.S. 377 - Vermilya-Brown Co. v. Connell · 1948Most cited · 219 citing opinions
commerce between any State, Territory or possession (not including the Canal Zone), or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; .
How often courts cite the cases defining “interstate or foreign commerce”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “interstate or foreign commerce” — 349 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1913–1948
- 1913·229 U.S. 336 - Railroad Commission of Louisiana v. Texas & Pacific Railway Company[p16]· cited 129×ORIGINAL
it is the essential character of the commerce, not the accident of local or through bills of lading, which determines Federal or state control over it. And it takes character as interstate or foreign commerce when it is actually started in the course of transportation to another state or to a foreign country.
essential character