local activity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 347 U.S. 157 - Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. v. Calvert · 1954Most cited · 327 citing opinions
Commerce Clause
A tax imposed on a local activity related to interstate commerce is valid if, and only if, the local activity is not such an integral part of the interstate process, the flow of commerce, that it cannot realistically be separated from it.
How often courts cite the case defining “local activity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “local activity” — 327 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.