license fee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 312 U.S. 569 - Cox v. State of New Hampshire · 1941Most cited · 2,034 citing opinions
The fee was held to be 'not a revenue tax, but one to meet the expense incident to the administration of the act and to the maintenance of public order in the matter licensed'.
How often courts cite the case defining “license fee”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “license fee” — 2,027 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.